December 3, 1996 Engl 354 They come out at night through wire fences. They know that if they are caught, they could be thrown in jail for it. Yet, the thrill and danger of doing it– breaking the law– lures…
Category: Essays
Essays
A Night of Lecture
April 24, 1996 E 351 They dressed the stage with two blue and warn velvet chairs. A pitcher of water sits atop a table next to two water glasses; this ensemble divided the chairs. The lecture hall contained the excited…
The Evolution of Ethics
March 12, 1996 Engl 338 Proposing a new set of environmental ethics, Callenbach’s visionary novel Ecotopia depicts a necessary, evolutionary step in the way environmentalism in America should be seen. The novel addresses the issue of whether or not an…
The Moment of Truth
May 1, 1996 E 338 Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek explores the ways we perceive Nature and our connections to it. The novel is structured around series of epiphanic moments and images which attempt to define our relationship to…
Beauty Within
November 2, 1995 Engl 332 Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Or so they say. However, in “Sonnet 130,” written by William Shakespeare, the speaker describes a much different situation. Where a woman’s outer beauty is seen as…
The Early Literary Tradition : An Exploration
December 20, 1995 E 332 Despite its name and the implications of a middle or stagnant period, art and literature flourished during the old english period (Norton 1). Much of the history during this period is rooted in the Anglo-saxon…
God is Colder than Innocence Lost
February 11, 1996 Engl 332 William Blake’s poem, “The Garden of Love” tells of a young man’s past, a time when he used to play in a garden untamed by man’s hand. This poem, from Blake’s Songs of Innocence and…
Equality is a Cloud
March 9, 1996 Engl 332 What draws the reader’s attention to Blake’s “The Little Black Boy” is the way in which Blake uses the cloud. There are two different ways in which Blake uses the cloud imagery. On the surface…
Nature’s Muse
April 20, 1996 E 332 The industrial revolution changed the world. Not only did it procure new methods of producing items and advancing the quality of life, it created a fundamental change in the way that the world– Nature– was…
The Rest is History : British Poetic Tradition, Restoration Poetry to Now
May 6, 1996 Engl 332 During the Restoration/ Eighteenth Century most poets, being concerned with the development of the novel and what it had done to the poetic form chose to write melancholic poems that were concerned with the “morbid…