Hemingway – The Old Man and the Sea Opening
Hemingway’s sparse prose in the passage from the opening of The Old Man and the Sea Conceals an understated admiration… read more
What is the Price of Gleaming?- A Poem by Mark Doty
Mark Doty captures the tension between the individual and the collective through his vivid description of the gleaming mackerel. He… read more
Cyrano de Bergerac – Many Interpretations, One Play
(In progress) Cyrano de Bergerac bursts with comedy, wit, humour, but also failure, grief, and sorrow, the play itself bursting… read more
Musings on Narrative Structure: 「起承轉合」or Kishotenketsu
Craft is a kaleidoscope through which the art of literature is reflected and coloured, and Matthew Salesses in his “Top… read more
The Vicarious Power of Literature: John Keat’s “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”
John Keat’s Petrarchan sonnet, “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer,” expresses an unfiltered admiration for the powerfully vicarious effect that… read more
“The Most of It” by Robert Frost: A Search for Meaning in Isolation
The Most of It by Robert Frost He thought he kept the universe alone; For all the voice in answer… read more
“Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver
Wild Geese by Mary Oliver You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your… read more
Happy New Year
There are three possible reactions to reading Bei Dao’s poems- understanding, feigned understanding, and non-understanding. For me, the latter ones… read more
Love and Lost Love: Bechdel’s “Gradual Impact” and Sappho’s Poetry
Poem Analysis- [Didn’t Sappho say her guts clutched up like this?] by Marilyn Hacker
Our class completed a second timed assessment, this time on one of two unseen poems that we had to choose… read more