5 Minutes 'Til Midnight
There wasn't time to post anything yesterday. The Thursday posting is actually from Wednesday night. Seems that Blogger choked on publishing the post until after midnight. Anyways, I took the second test in my World Civilization class. I think I did good on it. Probably an A. It all hinges on the short answer questions. I'd guess that 8 out of the 10 I had to do (from a list of about 90) were on Greek topics. Giving the dates is the hardest part of the short answer.
I think I've neglected to mention that I went to speak with my British Literature professor Tuesday. We had a great discussion about Browning's "My Last Duchess." Lots of great ideas were exchanged. During the conversation he mentioned a book which he felt I might find interesting, William Clyde Devane's study of Robert Browning called "A Browning Handbook." It's an absolutely fabulous treasure trove of information about Browning and his poems.
Today in British Literature we discussed Robert Browning's dramatic monologue, "Soliloquy in a Spanish Cloister." It reminds me of Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose." The poem also calls to mind "Hamlet" and William Blake's "Poison Tree."
After Spanish I intend to return the books I've been hoarding from the campus library. Well, all except for the copy of Devane's work on Browning. I have a trunk load of about twenty books that I've been reading parts of as further reading in British Literature. Oh, plus I have a couple on the Spanish poet Campoamor. The interest in him was piqued by the Perez-Reverete book I finished off a short while back.
There wasn't time to post anything yesterday. The Thursday posting is actually from Wednesday night. Seems that Blogger choked on publishing the post until after midnight. Anyways, I took the second test in my World Civilization class. I think I did good on it. Probably an A. It all hinges on the short answer questions. I'd guess that 8 out of the 10 I had to do (from a list of about 90) were on Greek topics. Giving the dates is the hardest part of the short answer.
I think I've neglected to mention that I went to speak with my British Literature professor Tuesday. We had a great discussion about Browning's "My Last Duchess." Lots of great ideas were exchanged. During the conversation he mentioned a book which he felt I might find interesting, William Clyde Devane's study of Robert Browning called "A Browning Handbook." It's an absolutely fabulous treasure trove of information about Browning and his poems.
Today in British Literature we discussed Robert Browning's dramatic monologue, "Soliloquy in a Spanish Cloister." It reminds me of Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose." The poem also calls to mind "Hamlet" and William Blake's "Poison Tree."
After Spanish I intend to return the books I've been hoarding from the campus library. Well, all except for the copy of Devane's work on Browning. I have a trunk load of about twenty books that I've been reading parts of as further reading in British Literature. Oh, plus I have a couple on the Spanish poet Campoamor. The interest in him was piqued by the Perez-Reverete book I finished off a short while back.
11.21.2002
Technical Difficulties Abound
This part was suppose to be published this afternoon between British Lit and Spanish. However, Blogger wouldn't load right so I had to put it off.
I was up late last night redrafting the paper. Mook, without your help on my paper I doubt it would have been half as good as it turned out. Thanks.
British lit was fun today. We wrapped up "The Laboratory" by Robert Browning. At the beginning of class the professor asked to speak to me after class. I was worried during the whole class. Turns out that it occured to him this morning that "The Last Duchess" wasn't written in heroic couplets, that it was "Ulysses" he had been thinking of when we talked yesterday. We looked it up and I was correct. "MLD" is written with heroic couplets. Good thing, too, because I mentioned that in the paper I turned in today.
I have some Spanish homework to finish up now. After Spanish I'll be studying World Civ at work all evening. I printed out the log from Monday nights online study session. Figured I'd go through and read up on all the topics touched upon during the chat. That, and having paid attention in class, should garner me an A on the test tomorrow.
This part was suppose to be published this afternoon between British Lit and Spanish. However, Blogger wouldn't load right so I had to put it off.
I was up late last night redrafting the paper. Mook, without your help on my paper I doubt it would have been half as good as it turned out. Thanks.
British lit was fun today. We wrapped up "The Laboratory" by Robert Browning. At the beginning of class the professor asked to speak to me after class. I was worried during the whole class. Turns out that it occured to him this morning that "The Last Duchess" wasn't written in heroic couplets, that it was "Ulysses" he had been thinking of when we talked yesterday. We looked it up and I was correct. "MLD" is written with heroic couplets. Good thing, too, because I mentioned that in the paper I turned in today.
I have some Spanish homework to finish up now. After Spanish I'll be studying World Civ at work all evening. I printed out the log from Monday nights online study session. Figured I'd go through and read up on all the topics touched upon during the chat. That, and having paid attention in class, should garner me an A on the test tomorrow.
11.19.2002
Something old and something new.
My Spanish class was cancelled last Friday. There was a note up stating she was ill. So, the quiz was put off until yesterday. I aced it.
Also yesterday, in British Literature we discussed "Porphyria's Lover." I must admit to having reconsidered the poem after rereading and discussing it. I now like the poem quite well. There's a sort of symmetry employed (the four references to Porphyria's hair) as well as Browning's uncanny ability to create images which are derived from the words he uses rather than simply stipulated. A good example is the innuendo that the cottage door was left open by the phrasing of how Porphyria "glided in" (line 6).
His dramatic dialogues seem to require more than one reading so that all the elements can be understood and then enjoyed. These poems of his remind me of impressionistic or pointilism paintings - everything doesn't need to be given in order for a fuller image to be viewed, just the proper perspective.
Speaking of Browning, I switched my final essay in British Literature from an explication of three of Fitzgerald's rubyai to a discourse on the themes of control in Browning's "My Last Duchess." After my online study session for the second test in World Civilizations this Thursday stayed up work on the paper. I finished a rough draft last night at 3 am.
I woke up this morning at 7:30, rushing to make it to this morning's 8am class. At the end of American Government we went over the test we took last Thursday. The instructor in that class is amazingly punctual in grading tests- It took over two weeks to have the first World Civ test.
I didn't do quite as well as I anticipated. While I correctly answered all of the short answer questions a few of the multiple choice questions eluded me. I received all 30 points for short answer and correctly answered 24 out of the 28 mulitple-choice questions, earning me a 90%.
I'm off to do a little reading on "My Last Duchess" and, possibly, a jaunt over to see my British Lit professor to make some inquires. One thing that attracted me to browning was an online study guide for A.S. Byaat's "Possession" which claimed that Randolph Ash was modelled on Robert Browning. Unfortunately it appears we will only be reading a selection of his dramatic monologues. I've seen a great deal about a work of his tittled The Ring and the Book, which I would have enjoyed investigating. Perhaps I'll do so over Winter Break.
My Spanish class was cancelled last Friday. There was a note up stating she was ill. So, the quiz was put off until yesterday. I aced it.
Also yesterday, in British Literature we discussed "Porphyria's Lover." I must admit to having reconsidered the poem after rereading and discussing it. I now like the poem quite well. There's a sort of symmetry employed (the four references to Porphyria's hair) as well as Browning's uncanny ability to create images which are derived from the words he uses rather than simply stipulated. A good example is the innuendo that the cottage door was left open by the phrasing of how Porphyria "glided in" (line 6).
His dramatic dialogues seem to require more than one reading so that all the elements can be understood and then enjoyed. These poems of his remind me of impressionistic or pointilism paintings - everything doesn't need to be given in order for a fuller image to be viewed, just the proper perspective.
Speaking of Browning, I switched my final essay in British Literature from an explication of three of Fitzgerald's rubyai to a discourse on the themes of control in Browning's "My Last Duchess." After my online study session for the second test in World Civilizations this Thursday stayed up work on the paper. I finished a rough draft last night at 3 am.
I woke up this morning at 7:30, rushing to make it to this morning's 8am class. At the end of American Government we went over the test we took last Thursday. The instructor in that class is amazingly punctual in grading tests- It took over two weeks to have the first World Civ test.
I didn't do quite as well as I anticipated. While I correctly answered all of the short answer questions a few of the multiple choice questions eluded me. I received all 30 points for short answer and correctly answered 24 out of the 28 mulitple-choice questions, earning me a 90%.
I'm off to do a little reading on "My Last Duchess" and, possibly, a jaunt over to see my British Lit professor to make some inquires. One thing that attracted me to browning was an online study guide for A.S. Byaat's "Possession" which claimed that Randolph Ash was modelled on Robert Browning. Unfortunately it appears we will only be reading a selection of his dramatic monologues. I've seen a great deal about a work of his tittled The Ring and the Book, which I would have enjoyed investigating. Perhaps I'll do so over Winter Break.
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