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This is a place for us to discuss openly and honestly the literature we are reading. Here we are all just communicating our thoughts on what we are reading. There are no right and wrong answers. However, you are expected to be polite, mature, and on topic.

Saturday, December 18, 2010

KPU Class of 2011

Some of the greatest students I have had the pleasure of knowing, teaching and loving. KPU ACCEPTED!

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Victim???

Is Blanche a victim of her own self-delusions and Old South attitudes? Or,is she the victim of males who take advantage of her, deceive her, or abuse her? Explain. (The deadline to post a response to this question is midnight, Saturday, December 11, 2010.)

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

STAAAAAANNNNNNLEY

Tennessee Williams is noted for his effective and precise characterization. Characterize Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Name Desire. Which specific actions and lines helped you to see the true Stanley? (The deadline to post a response to this question is midnight December 9, 2010.)

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Passionate Pairings?


Read the following poem and comment on its theme and imagery. How does the imagery and juxtapositioning of images help create the poem's theme. Enjoy SONNET 30 by Edmund Spenser. (Deadline to comment is midnight, Saturday, Dec. 4, 2010)








My love is like to ice, and I to fire;
How comes it then that this her cold so great
Is not dissolved through my so hot desire,
But harder grows the more I her entreat?
Or how comes it that my exceeding heat
Is not delayed by her heart frozen cold,
But that I burn much more in boiling sweat,
And feel my flames augmented manifold?
What more miraculous thing may be told
That fire which all thing melts, should harden ice,
And ice, which is congealed with senseless cold,
Should kindle fire by wonderful device?
Such is the power of love in gentle mind,
That it can alter all the course of kind.