The Spider and the Fly
All our talk today about victim blaming in “the Spider and the Fly” made me think of a movie I saw called “The Devil’s Carnival”. ...
Month: October 2015
The scary book
to a six year old, this is terrifying.
Caroline Norton IS Meg from Hercules
When I was reading “I Do Not Love Thee,” literally all I could think of was this song. I think Meg and Caroline would have been best friends.
Margaret Fuller on Mary Howitt’s Marriage
So this is a really small contribution (if it can even be called that), but not long ago we read excerpts of Fuller’s Woman in the Nineteenth Century in m...
Holly Anne’s Key Passage Analysis on Felicia Heman’s “The Image in Lava”.
Holly Anne’s Key Passage Analysis on Felicia Heman’s The Image in Lava. “Far better then to perish, Thy form within its clasp, Than live and lose thee, p...
Emily M.’s Key Passage Analysis on Felicia Hemans’ “I Dream of All Things Free”
“Of a happy forest child, With the fawns and flowers at play; Of an Indian ’midst the wild, With the stars to guide his way: Of a chief his warriors leading, Of...
The “Celebrated Mineralogist” from Hemans’ Poem
Sadly, I had to unexpectedly miss class Thursday and even more sadly missed out on the rip-roaring discussions on the first set of Felicia Hemans poems, so I th...
Jon’s Key Passage Analysis on Felicia Hemans’ “The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England”
“The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England” (Pages 292-293) Not as the conqueror comes, They, the true-hearted came; 10 ...
Megan’s Key Passage Analysis on Felicia Hemans’ “Epitaph on Mr. W–, a Celebrated Mineralogist”
page 283, lines 25-32 “Weep not, good reader! he is truly blest / Amidst chalcedony and quartz to rest: / Weep not for him! but envied be his doom, / Whose tom...
Terri’s Key Passage Analysis on Letitia Elizabeth Landon’s “Lines of Life”
Terri’s Key Passage Analysis on Letitia Elizabeth Landon’s “Lines of Life” Page 376, lines 5-12 “I never knew the time my heart / Look’d freel...