Malissa's Untitled Thoughts

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[ninjaruski]

The homework that I assign for my Philosophy class consists of one ten sentence paragraph in response to the reading due only on days when there is not an essay due or an exam to be taken. Ten sentences is enough to ensure that most undergraduates actually put in some work when crafting their...

[studystormer]

Study time ❤️

[bcceng102]

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[mrosanina]

This section covers the basics of how to write about poetry. Including why it is done, what you should know, and what you can write about.

[acceptthetightrope]

Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels.

William Carlos Williams

Introduction to Howl

(via acceptthetightrope)

[mrosanina]

PART THREE: HOWL

Main Ideas:

-Author's devotion and love to Carl.

Refrain: "'i'm with you in Rockland" pg 24

-Psycho feelings and thoughts.

-A reminder of the authors mother?

-Part 3 is where the authors truly lets out who he is, his homosexuality, and is finally comfortable.

-The want and need of Carl.

[mrosanina]

PART TWO: HOWL

Main Ideas:

-Religious affiliation/aspects.

-Author' struggle finding himself and being okay with the outcome

-Moloch a person or thought that hands over him? A controller of him?

-"Moloch in whom I sit lonely" pg 22

-Author is trying to get away from this control and fear. 

[mrosanina]

PART ONE: HOWL

Main Ideas:

-People who have been destroyed by the world

-Kinds of people, what they are like.

-Poverty/Politics of people and situations

-Wanderlust

-a wanting for someone or something to keep them alive.

-A sense of hopelessness.

-dying yet still alive.

[care-worn]

Some things, once you’ve loved them, become yours forever. And if you try to let them go, they only circle back and return to you. They become part of who you are.

Allen Ginsberg (via care-worn)

[raggedray]

:)

[mrosanina]

Samuel L. Jackson Performs Slam Poem About "Boy Meets World"

Samuel L. Jackson stopped by The Tonight Show to perform a slam poem about the 1990's sitcom "Boy Meets World." 

[bcceng102]

Readings for First Week of April

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/learning/essay/239762

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2014/01/whacked-out-a-case-for-the-advocacy-of-the-unlisted-amy-king/

[mrosanina]

List of artists who portray poetry through music. 

[bibipedote]

[mrosanina]

Mumford and Sons

[mrosanina]

Musical Artists who I feel portray poetry through music:

-Marina and The Diamonds

-Florence and The Machine

-Mumford and Sons

-Margaret and the Nuclear So and So's 

-City and Colour

[sarahmahini-oasis]