Handouts and Tips

Pope and Wordsworth

Writing about Poetry

Barbara Allen

Coleridge and Wordsworth on Coleridge

Tennyson Review

Sympathy and Dickens

 

After the midterm:

Sassoon

Jessie Pope

Woolf Mr Bennett Mrs Brown

Mrs Dalloway

Kipling

Beckett, Play

 

I endorse the advice on Jack Lynch’s site on How to Get an ‘A’ on an English Paper.

 

A few resources on close reading:

From the Harvard Writing Center

On close reading poetry

Things to be looking for when reading

1 comments

  1. I like the opening: “Know thy own point: This kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heav’n bestows on thee. Submit.—In this, or any other sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear.”

    I got the interpretation that despite the disability, one should circumvent the disability and embrace a sense that it is a blessing.

    Anyway, this is my view of the poem. I am still working on my disability of interpreting abstract meaning from poems. I got experience reading poems from Langston Hughes because they resonated well. My guess is that poems stand out more clearly when you can relate to the content.

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