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My First Blog Post
Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.
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Summatative Entry
“The Twentieth Century gives me real insights into human and social issues that are still current in the 21st century.” Throughout the blogging of this unit, many mediums that explore into the 20th-century literature has taught me insight about the prominent social issues at its time. From issues that plagued the 20th century such as… Read more
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Peer Review 4
Sarah Vella Hi Sarah, I read your creative blog, in which you reflect your own experience described by “The love song of J.Alfred Prufrock”, when referring to the stifling silence in a zoom class. You provide some background context regarding the circumstances you’re in, referring to your entry at ACU university and inexperience with zoom,… Read more
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Blog 5
Write a paragraph that continues this sentence by James Joyce and the expresses your own hopes for your life ”I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can…” I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art… Read more
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Peer Review 3
Catlin Burke Hi Caitlin, I read your critical blog, where your analysis Wilfred Owen’s poem “Anthem for Doomed Youth” exploring the themes of illicit effects of war. You break down the structure of his poetry by delving into the subject matter on the nature of war, explaining the intended effects of the destructive nature of… Read more
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Blog 4
Virginia Woolf believes in the power of the imagination to liberate human beings from the shackles of their enslavement. Do you have a comment on this statement? To liberate, is to set free from ‘enslavement’, as such what I will attempt to interpret what Virginia Woolf means by enslavement. I hypothesis that the Woolf’s idea… Read more
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Peer Review 2
Jessica Armani Hi Jessica, I read your creative blog, writing a letter to Wilfred Owen and I found your use of correlating the protests from America involving Black Lives Matter in reference to Owen’s own poetic themes. Your letter acknowledges the consequences that have stemmed from war, correlating it to modern politics, in contemporary America… Read more
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Blog 3
Have you experienced, or do you know someone who has experienced any of the situation described in “The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock”? Tell their or YOUR story about what it feels like to be him. T.S Eliot’s poem, ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ describes the erratic experience of tortured psyche of the… Read more
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Peer Review 1
Cameron Cole Hi Cameron, I just read your Ekphrastic poem and I was intrigued by the provocative imagery you portrayed painting imagery of the cycle of life. Your poem creates refers to the devastating aftermath as you describe the surroundings of ‘blackened stumps’ to the contrast of what was once there with “tall standing native… Read more
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Blog 2
How does your response to Sassoon’s “On Passing the New Menin Gate” make you reassess your reaction to war memorials in your own country? Try to be as honest as you can about this. Siegfried Sassoon Author and War Veteran My perceptions and views of war memorials have always been one of a sacred nature… Read more
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Blog 1
Describe an experience in your own life where you seem to have touched something much deeper than your ordinary everyday experience An experience in my own life which touched something deeper than my every day would have been my school trip to Uluru. In which, we were guided by the indigenous to learn about the… Read more