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1. What’s the advantage or disadvantage of a poem? Pick a poem we read in this class, and explain how we would perceive it differently if it were wrote in essay. 2. Literature plays an important role in human history … Continue reading
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A room of one’s own
It seems to me that Virginia Woolf likes the theory of cause and effect. For example, “Next came beef with its attendant greens and potatoes…suggesting the rumps of cattle in a muddy market.” She always tries to figure out the … Continue reading
Gertrude Stein, If I Told Him
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJEIAGULmPQ This is a video from youtube shows us how Gertrude Stein reads her poem “If I Had Told Him a Completed Portrait of Picasso.” Oh wow. I don’t know what to say. I don’t understand it a lot. It … Continue reading
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Diary of a madman
Cannibalism is a main clue thourghout the story. The madman thinks everyone else is trying to eat him, every social conduct is a part of cannibalism. “The meanest looking one of all….ready to strike.” From stanza 2. People smile at … Continue reading
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Ideas for midterm?
Ideas for midterm? My ideas for midterm is to write about what we have learnt through half of the semester. Is there anything gained or Lost? Or how is education related to enlightment? We could refer to the text and … Continue reading
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“A defense of the poetry”
I kind of like poetries and i like Chinese poetries better. Because they are in ancient Chinese, even though not in modern Chinese, i could still understand them better than old English. Nevertheless, no matter what kind of language is … Continue reading
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Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
I have heard about the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen a lot when I was studying world history in high school. We were taught declaration of the rights of man and of the … Continue reading
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Candide
As i continued to read the book, Candide started to question Pangloss’s philosophy, that “everthing is for the best.” When he met the negro, whose left leg and right hand are cut off, he said:”Oh Pangloss!You had no notion … Continue reading
Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft was considered as one of the founders of feminism after her death. Her thoughts were greatly enlightened and influenced by the French Revolution at that time. She wrote “A Vindication of the Rights of Men” in 1791, which attacked constitutional … Continue reading