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Nov. 15th, 2010 01:50 pmOf the good: trying to open something I wrote on a newer version of word and instead of being told oops sorry no it just points me to where to download the upgrade. Win! I can read my notes!
I did the homework comparing two Blake poems, The Lamb and The Tyger. I like the tiger one and can't stand the lamb one but we're supposed to be more sophisticated than that.
Teach has uploaded the essay questions. The hand in date for Satire is 20th December. Lovely. I suspect the hand in date for Revolution and REaction is the same because she said so out loud in class, that it was end of term in December, but the paperwork still says 4th of January, so I don't know.
There's some good meaty questions, and some questions I can rule out right away. Like, I realise excrement was important to 18th century satire, but I'm not going to spend thousands of words talking shit. On purpose, anyway.
Neither am I going to discuss drug use in Romantic poets. The last thing a coherent essay needs is me being all squicked and arrrgh about the topic. Addiction for the lose.
Plenty other good topics to choose from though. I'm looking forward to the next bit of the unit where we study orientalism, because there's plenty to be productively annoyed at there. In the first part there was pastoral vs anti pastoral, where it's the ... invisibling isn't a word, rats... erasure of labour from the narrative of the countryside, making labouring class people into blanks for upper class projections. The orientalism part will be about making All Them Foreigners into blanks for projection of scary things. The middle bit seems to be more about how romantic poets think poetry is important. And also how they hallucinate a lot. I don't feel that's particularly enlightening. I mean, there's no necessary connection between hallucination and poetry in either direction, so I'm over it. The basic idea though is how the mind is the boss of the perceptions, not the perceptions the programming of the mind, and that you can thread together with stuff about discourse and ideology and the other two chunks of this semester about invisible labourers and shadowy foreigners that are both perception failures because of mental images/attitudes overriding and coloring input. It's just I feel the emphasis on being drugged out your skull or just generally inclined to chats with dead people may obscure rather than illuminate that thematic connection.
Now I'm trying to decide if I've done enough work today to watch some star trek or if I should do more reading.
I think I need to finish a chapter of reading at least, cause it's only a 7 day book and I have to take it back on Thursday.
Then Star Trek.
I did the homework comparing two Blake poems, The Lamb and The Tyger. I like the tiger one and can't stand the lamb one but we're supposed to be more sophisticated than that.
Teach has uploaded the essay questions. The hand in date for Satire is 20th December. Lovely. I suspect the hand in date for Revolution and REaction is the same because she said so out loud in class, that it was end of term in December, but the paperwork still says 4th of January, so I don't know.
There's some good meaty questions, and some questions I can rule out right away. Like, I realise excrement was important to 18th century satire, but I'm not going to spend thousands of words talking shit. On purpose, anyway.
Neither am I going to discuss drug use in Romantic poets. The last thing a coherent essay needs is me being all squicked and arrrgh about the topic. Addiction for the lose.
Plenty other good topics to choose from though. I'm looking forward to the next bit of the unit where we study orientalism, because there's plenty to be productively annoyed at there. In the first part there was pastoral vs anti pastoral, where it's the ... invisibling isn't a word, rats... erasure of labour from the narrative of the countryside, making labouring class people into blanks for upper class projections. The orientalism part will be about making All Them Foreigners into blanks for projection of scary things. The middle bit seems to be more about how romantic poets think poetry is important. And also how they hallucinate a lot. I don't feel that's particularly enlightening. I mean, there's no necessary connection between hallucination and poetry in either direction, so I'm over it. The basic idea though is how the mind is the boss of the perceptions, not the perceptions the programming of the mind, and that you can thread together with stuff about discourse and ideology and the other two chunks of this semester about invisible labourers and shadowy foreigners that are both perception failures because of mental images/attitudes overriding and coloring input. It's just I feel the emphasis on being drugged out your skull or just generally inclined to chats with dead people may obscure rather than illuminate that thematic connection.
Now I'm trying to decide if I've done enough work today to watch some star trek or if I should do more reading.
I think I need to finish a chapter of reading at least, cause it's only a 7 day book and I have to take it back on Thursday.
Then Star Trek.