Poetry 180 - Home Page Welcome to Poetry 180. Poetry can and should be an important part of our daily lives. Poems can inspire and make us think about what it means to be a member of the human race. Poetry 180 is designed to make it easy for students to hear or read a poem on each of the 180 days of the school year. Listening to poetry can encourage students and other learners to become members of the circle of readers for whom poetry is a vital source of pleasure. Billy Collins Former Poet Laureate of the United States Learn more about Billy Collins More Poet Laureate projects
Literary Resources -- 20th-Century British (Lynch) This page is part of the Literary Resources collection maintained by Jack Lynch of Rutgers – Newark. Comments and suggestions are welcome. Twentieth-Century Literature Calls for Papers From Penn's list. Voice of the Shuttle — Modern British The best set of links. Literary Women of the Left Bank (Paula DiTallo) On-line magazine on early Modernism, especially women in Paris, 1900-1940, but with broader coverage than the title suggests. Modern Fiction Studies (Purdue) Information on the journal. Postmodernism is/in Fiction (Pomona) Original essays and links on Acker, Auster, DeLillo, Garcia Marquez, Gibson, Hagedom, Morrison, Powers, Pynchon, Reed, and Rushdie. The Space Between Information on the "society for the study of literature and culture between the wars." The Spirit Of Bohemia (Bohemia Books) A collection of original essays and links on 19th- and early 20th-c. The Great War Lost Poets of the Great War (Harry Rusche, Emory) Poetry of the First World War Trenches on the Web (Mike Iavarone) Authors
Writing a Sonnet 3 of 5 Learn to write a sonnet in iambic pentameter, just like Shakespeare did. Discover the rhythm and rhyme scheme of the quatrains and couplets that make up a Shakespearean sonnet. Credit: "Sonnet 18," © 2008 Jinx!, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license: Here are the rules for writing a sonnet: It must consist of 14 lines. If you're writing the most familiar kind of sonnet, the Shakespearean, the rhyme scheme is this: Every A rhymes with every A, every B rhymes with every B, and so forth. Ah, but there's more to a sonnet than just the structure of it. First quatrain: An exposition of the main theme and main metaphor. One of Shakespeare's best-known sonnets, Sonnet 18, follows this pattern: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,And often is his gold complexion dimmed;And every fair from fair sometime declines,By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed;
Transcendental Woman by Christopher Benfey Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life: The Public Years by Charles Capper Oxford University Press, 649 pp., $45.00 Margaret Fuller: Wandering Pilgrim by Meg McGavran Murray University of Georgia Press, 515 pp., $44.95 Fuller in Her Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of Her Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates edited by Joel Myerson University of Iowa Press, 217 pp., $27.95 (paper) With impediments in her way—she did not attend college, she wasn’t rich or conventionally beautiful, she was prone to physical and psychological ailments—Fuller continually sought a wider scope for her ambitious undertakings, as if, as her intimate friend Emerson remarked, “this athletic soul craved a larger atmosphere than it found.” During her sometimes improbable and ultimately tragic life—a life that George Eliot might have imagined—Margaret Fuller became, as her biographer Charles Capper points out, the first of many things:
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Throwback Thursday: Back-to-School Beatitudes–10 Academic Survival Tips « The Crunk Feminist Collective 30 Aug Update, August 2012 Original Post Graduate school was nothing short of an emotional and physical rollercoaster. I spent the first semester depressed and homesick, years 2-4 battling a stress-induced stomach condition that caused me to lose not only 75 pounds but also a whole semester of work. I healed just in time to begin my dissertation, wherein I gained back most of the weight I lost, and experienced a nasty case of stress-induced shingles just as I was rounding third. Be confident in your abilities.If you feel like a fraud, you very likely are suffering from impostor syndrome, a chronic feeling of intellectual or personal inadequacy born of grandiose expectations about what it means to be competent. A little musical inspiration for the journey... Alright, fam. Like this: Like Loading...
5 Things Really Smart People Do By Kevin Daum, visit Inc. Most people don't really think much about how they learn. Generally you assume learning comes naturally. You listen to someone speak either in conversation or in a lecture and you simply absorb what they are saying, right? But the need for learning never ends, so your desire to do so should always outweigh your desire to be right. 1. 2. If you can't quiet the inner voice, then at least use it to your advantage. RELATED: 8 Habits of Remarkably Successful People 3. Some people are naturally curious and others are not. 4. No concept or theory comes out of thin air. RELATED: How to Be Happier at Work 5. Often people shut out learning due to the person delivering the material. RELATED: 7 Traits of Extraordinary Bosses Also on HuffPost:
A warning to college profs from a high school teacher For more than a decade now we have heard that the high-stakes testing obsession in K-12 education that began with the enactment of No Child Left Behind 11 years ago has resulted in high school graduates who don’t think as analytically or as broadly as they should because so much emphasis has been placed on passing standardized tests. Here, an award-winning high school teacher who just retired, Kenneth Bernstein, warns college professors what they are up against. Bernstein, who lives near Washington, D.C. serves as a peer reviewer for educational journals and publishers, and he is nationally known as the blogger “teacherken.” His e-mail address is kber@earthlink.net. By Kenneth Bernstein You are a college professor. I have just retired as a high school teacher. I have some bad news for you. Troubling Assessments My primary course as a teacher was government, and for the last seven years that included three or four (out of six) sections of Advanced Placement (AP) U.S. A Teacher’s Plea
This Is The Writing Advice That Changed My Life -- And The Way That I Write -- Forever Here I am discussing writing advice with one of my favorite new XO contributors, Nia Renee Hill. After having the same conversation with several different writers -- including the beautiful and talented Nia Renee Hill (pictured) for her most recent pieces, I decided to write this up. At the very end is the writing advice that helped me understand why I used to have so much trouble overthinking and trying to fit everything into one piece -- and that provided a solution that helped me improve my writing dramatically. As I've written about before, doing morning pages has helped improve my writing (and my life) by leaps and bounds. The advice below is specifically for the more personal memoir style writing we do at xoJane, but it might hit home for others who do various styles. I hope you share your own writing inspiration in the comments! Here's mine. 1. I find that my writing is a lot better when I'm actually having fun, and I'm really enjoying the process. Remember: You are God here. 2. 3.
Procrastination Is Not Laziness I was going to tackle my procrastination problem last weekend but I never got around to it. By Sunday at 5:48 p.m. I realized I had blown it again. Throughout the week I feel like I barely have enough time to cook, eat, tidy up, write an article and do the odd errand. I lean towards the weekend, when I have two whole days to finally get some work done. To improve my blog, to catch up on my correspondence, to get some monkeys off my back like fixing things that need fixing, organizing things that need organizing, tackling things that need tackling. But the weekends go by and I never catch up. Sometimes I do sit down early in the day and pound something out, but then I give myself a well-deserved break and that’s usually the end of any productivity. I avoid taking on the real important stuff. So much of what I want to do isn’t terribly difficult and wouldn’t take a lot of time to get done. Reaching critical levels To some of you this is already sounding familiar. All I want