http://blogs.setonhill.edu/SueMyers/ en-us 2009-01-28T22:17:36-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/SueMyers/030155.html In a normal circumstance after reading a poem a person would start thinking about the poem and what it means. After reading this poem I began to think about how fun it would be to pick apples on an apple... English SueMyers 2009-01-28T22:17:36-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/SueMyers/030153.html The last time I read this book I kind of raced through without really picking up on things. All I could think about was how much I hated Daisy and Tom. This time I took it slow at noticed things... English SueMyers 2009-01-28T21:58:56-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/SueMyers/030045.html "Criticism is an inevitable as breathing, and that we should be non the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel and emotion about it." (Elliot) I really never thought about how much... English SueMyers 2009-01-25T20:11:39-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/SueMyers/030043.html Sometimes I wonder why professors or anybody for that matter bothers to ask what is literature. I mean there are so many definitions and I love how this article comes right out and says that there are so many... English SueMyers 2009-01-25T17:18:29-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/SueMyers/030006.html I thought I would get the ball rolling by dusting off my little old blog and writing an entry. As I was trying to add an entry I found it harder than I remembered, Wow Dr. Jerz, you have changed... musing SueMyers 2009-01-19T17:28:19-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/SueMyers/019278.html My word this week is Paradox. I see and hear this word all the time. I will be honest and say I never truely know what it ment. Paradox: A statement that seems self contradictory or nonsensical on the surface... English SueMyers 2007-02-10T21:16:06-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/SueMyers/019275.html "that Keats is not an escapist living in a pleasent dream" True that Keats probably was not an escapist but he did have a vivid imagination. He also did not have the greatest life. Quite a few of his family... English SueMyers 2007-02-10T16:30:41-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/SueMyers/019274.html "When the historian investigates the question whether the figure of Shylock in THe Merchant of Venice represents an antiemetic view, he regards the question as hardly distinguishable from a question about what Shakespeare and his first audience would have thought... English SueMyers 2007-02-10T16:24:48-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/SueMyers/019225.html I have to admit that this text just seemed to go over my head. Everything I read just seemed to go around in circles. As much as I was dazed by the texts there were a few quotes that jumped... English SueMyers 2007-02-06T15:55:39-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/SueMyers/019189.html My word of the week is Homeric epithet. If you are wondering why I picked it, I mentioned Homer in one of my blogs and thought I would check it out. So here's what it means. Homeric epithet: A short... English SueMyers 2007-02-04T23:38:33-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/SueMyers/019187.html "We have the pausible assumption that authors will be affeted by the intellectual currents and social conditions that surround them." I totally agreed with this quote from Kessey. I would think that the world and times would be influencial to... English SueMyers 2007-02-04T23:21:38-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/SueMyers/019186.html I think that each time I read the Yellow Wallpaper I have a new observation. I still think that the narrater is the woman in the wallpaper. I'm not starting to think the people in the stories are ghosts. Maybe... English SueMyers 2007-02-04T23:17:39-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/SueMyers/019030.html After reading this article I found it interesting that some things are considered as literature and others aren't. What bugged me the most is that Madame de Sevigne's letters to her daughter are considered as literature but a note to... English SueMyers 2007-01-30T14:53:28-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/SueMyers/019010.html Well, I finished Benito Cereno awhile ago but just couldn't think of anything to write. I felt pressured to write something critical. I wasn't sure if I should just write my thoughts. Well, here are my thoughts regardless. I think... English SueMyers 2007-01-29T23:21:23-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/SueMyers/018925.html I will admit that there are times when I don't understand what something means. There is one word that I have been seeing a lot of lately. If you couldn't already tell, it's Aesthetics. When I don't know something I... English SueMyers 2007-01-28T18:07:33-05:00