EL 207--Fall 2011

I thought I might follow Bethany's examples and post my reflections on the class as a final post. I agree that this class has covered a ...

Now that Brit Lit is near its end, I am going mad bonkers because my head is spinning around all the terms, dates, authors, and movements I ...

Gray’s Elegy is a quite low class poem. It focuses on nature, as many other poems have in the past but more on the quaint countryside. He...

The Rape of the Lock is a mock epic for sure. It takes trivial actions and makes them into epic events, similar to City Shower . In this ...

In Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko she doesn’t outright speak out against slavery but it is quite apparent that she disagrees the enslavement of ‘n...

Jubilate Agno is comical to say the least. Smart's reflection on his cat’s actions are ridiculous. Up till now poems using this ty...

The Deserted Village addresses how the lure of the city corrupts even the most innocent of people. The virgin country girl is lured in by...