http://blogs.setonhill.edu/SueMyers/ en-us 2007-02-10T21:16:06-05:00 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 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/SueMyers/018924.html Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an excape from personality." This quote intriges me. I have always been lead to believe that poetry is always... English SueMyers 2007-01-28T17:47:18-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/SueMyers/018904.html Keesey had a lot of interesting things to say but a couple remarkes caught my eye within his introduction. At one point he says "many theories of interpretation are based on the belief that we must look either to the... English SueMyers 2007-01-28T12:19:03-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/SueMyers/015383.html Hey everyone, sorry it's been so long. Bad Bloginator, Bad! There, I scolded myself, haha. Anyways, It's been quite interesting around here to say the least. I still haven't gotten used to my school. Things are so different here. Lectures... musing SueMyers 2006-04-02T00:05:17-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/SueMyers/014885.html Well, it's almost 1:30 in the morning and I'm enjoying the fact that my roommate has a lab top computer and our apartment has a wireless network. Yes, I have finally met my roommates, it's nice having other people to... SueMyers 2006-02-23T12:20:57-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/SueMyers/014794.html Hey everyone, It's about time I blogged everyone about my whereabouts. I am now in Australia and I have so much to tell you guys. It's been a long and interesting trip getting here, let me tell you. When I... musing SueMyers 2006-02-17T01:24:21-05:00