Category Archives: Class Blog

While I was reading Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, An American slave, the book was so vivid that I felt as if I was watching a movie. The way the central character, Fredrick Douglas narrates his life story … Continue reading →

I have read all of the selected poems from Emily Dickinson and as I read them I noticed a common theme with all of them. I felt like in all of the poems I read I had this dark vibe … Continue reading →

Reading the “Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman I fall in love in his poems. The philosophy of his deep thoughts about the world and himself overwhelmed my mind. I tried to understand his “I” and his ”What”, tried to … Continue reading →

The poem, “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”, is about a knight who with some sort of difficulty (inferring from the first to third stanzas: “O WHAT can ail thee, knight-at-arms, alone and palely loitering … Fast withereth too.”) was approached, … Continue reading →

In “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”, the first two stanzas start with the same sentence. Stanzas I presents the state (alone and loitering) and ends up with lifeless (sedge wither’d and no birds sing).   Stanzas II is more about the … Continue reading →

Keats mentions poisonous trees and death-related things at the beginning of the poem, Ode ton Melancholy, such as Lethe which according to Greek Mythology is a river whose water when drunk makes the dead’s souls forget their life on earth, … Continue reading →

Xin Chen Poems by Willam Wordsworth For this blog post, I’m going to discuss the selected poems by William Wordsworth. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” “A Slumber Did My Spirit” and “Nutting.” In “I Wandered Lonely as Cloud,” I … Continue reading →

Tasmina Sharmi Grasmere Journals- Dorothy Wordsworth In her work The Grasmere journals, Dorothy Wordsworth chronicles her life over the period of three years (1800-1803). Because the excerpts we read were not in chronological order the thoughts are sporadic however one … Continue reading →