The Wasteland

Poets - I found a better copy of the wasteland online. It has way for notes. Take a look at this for Friday.

http://eliotswasteland.tripod.com/

Choose your own adventure

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choose_Your_Own_Adventure

"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both"
-Robert Frost

Beginning on Friday May 22, you will be allowed to choose one of two ways to spend your remaining time in Brit Lit. You've already chosen to read either Lord of the Flies or 1984; your next choice will to spend 3 classes watching Sense and Sensibility or studying Victorian and Modernist Poetry.

You can in fact travel both roads, but only one can be done in class. The other road must be walked alone - if you choose to double back and take it.

For the movie crowd: You can show up watch the film and write a one page thought paper on it on any theme in British Literature that is relevant to this text.

For the lovers (of poetry), the dreamers, and me: We'll form a little lit circle and discuss the following poems over the three days.

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

The Waste Land

God’s Grandeur

Pied Beauty

Neutral Tones

Hap

My Last Duchess

More info on Literary Periods

Victorian Period:

http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/victorian/welcome.htm

http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/victorian/topic_3/welcome.htm

http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/victorian/topic_4/welcome.htm

Modernism:

http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/20century/welcome.htm

http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/20century/topic_1_05/welcome.htm

http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/20century/topic_2_05/welcome.htm

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Okay class, here's the homework reading for Wednesday night. We'll discuss it in class on Thursday as we wrap up Frankenstein.

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/rousseau-inequality2.html

Remember that you need to read the first 5 pages carefully, then skim the rest. There's two good paragraphs at the bottom of page 7, and then the last paragraph of the essay deserves attention as well.

Frankenstein: A Modern Prometheus

Here is a link to a detailed telling of the myth.

http://thanasis.com/modern/pro01.htm