I came across The Wilfred Owen Multimedia Digital Archive, and they have some fascinating things to check out about Owen. What I’ve been doing is looking at letters he wrote while at war. There are a bunch he wrote to his mother, Susan Owen, and his attitude in those letters seems so less [...]
“Adam’s Curse,” while basically retelling a biblical story, also reworks the tale to underscore the value implicit in studying literature, specifically poetry. In the third line, Yeats introduces the subject of reading poetry and continues to express how much time and effort it takes to make sense of a poem, and that even if you [...]
Who is the third who walks always beside you?
When I count, there are only you and I together
But when I look ahead up the white road
There is always another one walking beside you
Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded
I do not know whether a man or a woman
-But who is that on the other side [...]
It was really exciting to see that other people wanted to discuss “Prufrock” further – what an awesome poem.
One of the big things in the Eliot poems we’ve read so far seems to be a sense of spiritual suspension. That’s something that was more obvious to me with today’s readings, but when I revisited [...]