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[coffeebesweet]

25 May 2020 | D-7 of my 5 pages critical essay submission for World Literature. I had done my research and compiled all the paper related to the topic I have chosen. Now I only need to start writing them ehe. I am expecting 3-4 days for me to finish writing, and the remaining days would be used to reread them.

Hoping I can finish this on time. I'm planning to start writing the introduction tonight. I am a night owl, I find it easier for me to write something in the middle of the night or early in the morning, where no one would be able to distract me 🍀

[jasminetdiaz]

2/100 days of ( nonconsecutive ) productivity 

so i decided to draw U.S. territories 1803-1853.. fun :)

[coffeebesweet]

Will be having my last paper for this semester today! Send me luck guys ✨

[quaint-study]

So I just read the cockiest piece of lit crit by Poe -- the punchline being that Poe analyzed and deconstructed his own poem. 

Contained these gems:

“I have neither sympathy with the repugnance alluded to...” (that is, thoughtless composition)

In composing The Raven he claims to have composed “a poem that should suit at once the popular and the critical taste.”

Poe freely pours dirt on Paradise Lost (which I am coincidentally also reading at the moment!), calling it “essentially prose ... the whole being deprived ... of the vastly important artistic element, totality, or unity, of effect.” 

This gem: “Yet, for centuries, no man, in verse, has ever done, or ever seemed to think of doing, an original thing”. Yup. He obliterated centuries of Western poetic tradition in one sentence!

“...the death, then, of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetic topic in the world”. A darker note of misogyny. Here is an awesome video by Ron Lit (best booktuber ever!) with more on Poe, detective fiction, and women! 

All of the above quotes taken from “The Philosophy of Composition”, if anyone is interested in skimming it. 

[quaint-study]

Day 7/100. Hah! My post from a few days ago didn't go through!

[thestudyspace]

noting down ways to analyze literature with help from this guide. hopefully i finish this coursework tomorrow!

[thestudyspace]

Studying the psychoanalysis theory in relation to The Picture Of Dorian Gray

[thestudyspace]

which are your favorite studyspo blogs??

I have lots so i’ll try to narrow it down!

studylit 

culturalbee 

hannahreveur 

studyforwhatmatters 

studylikeadoctor 

universityandme 

educationandclass