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Even I am starting to wear down from everything! I finally got my paper done for Senior Seminar but, I’m afraid I didn’t make my point. The point that I finally settled on this week was whether William Carlos Williams could be considered a Romanticist like William Wordsworth. I was unable to put it intoContinue reading “Is It Over”

Here’s to you, Sara, I am just going to write until I can come up with something for my blog. I thought I might get more of my paper done, but things are not going the way that I need them to. Two papers to write, a final exam that I need to spend aContinue reading

This is a question I seem to be asking myself the closer we get to the end of the semester. If I concentrate on what I need to do, then maybe I will get it done. Then, along comes someone or something which not only breaks my concentration, but manages to side-track me. Fanny, asContinue reading “What Do I Want To Do?”

With everything going on around me, my two BIG papers which have to be written by the last week of the semester (2 weeks maybe?), changes at work (again), and the fact that 2 or 3 patients with COVID-19 have gone home from the hospital, I’m not sure what my response is to it all.Continue reading “Where is Home?”

I found another article for my final paper and it explains Wordsworth’s feeling on the pastoral genre. Wordsworth, in writing this ballad, saw the possible decline or loss of “independent domestic life” (Page, p. 626) which had connections to family and love of family and home. Wordsworth uses language, diction, syntax, and meter to supportContinue reading “Language and Diction”

I am finding that this book is actually an easier read than The Victim of Prejudice. When Fanny first comes to Mansfield Park, she is shy and backward. Her aunts are actually not really excited about Fanny coming to live with them. Mrs. Norris doesn’t help anything, she actually scares Fanny more. I really haven’tContinue reading “Mrs. Norris and the Social Class”

After finishing the story of Mary, who was well-educated and then reading Letters and Essays, The importance of education is very important. In Mary’s troubles, she still had her mind to figure things out. When she had to find a way to pay for her lodging and needs in London, she used her talent ofContinue reading “To Educate or Not To Educate?”

Okay, I am at a loss as to what I want to put in my blog. So I guess I will just start writing and see if I can get a line on something. I think that most of the male characters in the book are all jerks. Mary sacrifices herself for them but, theyContinue reading “A Victim of Prejudice or My Research Paper?”

In all four of the articles for Tuesday, equality for women is the subject here. A great institution, marriage, was nothing more than a form of oppression, or in at least two of those articles, slavery. This, of course, was right around the early 18th century. One of the equalities mentioned was education. Mary Robinson’s AContinue reading “Ladies Equality, Rights, and Education”

I still believe that in order for a written work, poem, prose, etc., it needs to evoke an emotion in the reader. Upon reading this travel log, I can see where it might be considered literary, but literature it is not! I prefer a plot of some kind and I do not see a plotContinue reading “Letters Written during a Short Residence…”