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Department of English Observes Pablo Neruda's Birth Anniversary
The Department of English at Arka Jain University celebrated the birth anniversary of Nobel Laureate poet Pablo Neruda. A talk on his life and works was delivered by Dr. Rajkumari Ghosh, and students enthusiastically recited his poems. JAMSHEDPUR – The Department of English at Arka Jain University commemorated the birth anniversary of Nobel Laureate American poet Pablo Neruda today. The event…
#arka jain university#शिक्षा#birth anniversary#Department of English#Dr. Rajkumari Ghosh#education#literary celebration#Nobel Laureate#Pablo Neruda#Poetry Recitation#student engagement
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strange that "skinny" means thin. it should mean...skinny. characterized by skin. possessing or characterized by an above average amount of skin. more skin rather than less skin. but somehow it means less skin? preposterous
#*calls my local college English department* yes hello who is in charge here I have a complaint to make#yes a complaint of an etymological nature#what do u mean ur not in charge of that u r literally the English Department
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I meant to post about this back when TTPD was released and never got around to it, but it's so touching to me that Taylor has peppered so many British-isms into the album, and not just in a jokey kind of way like in "London Boy" back in the Lover days.
It's such a beautiful, subtle nod to how much that was her life for years, and to the marks the city and the muse(s) left on her. Because isn't that true of any of us when we've been around a person for so long, or live in a place we've made into our home? You start picking up their speech patterns until they become second nature. (For instance, one of my best friends moved abroad for university, and before long she started dropping in words like "fortnight," "lorry,""shops" (vs. stores) into conversation when we'd speak, which only got stronger along with her accent shifting as the years went by and she stayed there.) Kind of a love language code switching.
It’s sprinkled throughout the album. “For a fortnight” in “Fortnight,” “blokes” on “The Alchemy,” “the shops,”* in “How Did It End?” I think my favourite use of it is in “The Bolter,” because it’s such a classic twangy yeehaw Taylor song, but she’s got these tiny turns of phrase that point to where she spent a large portion of her adult life. (E.g. “best mates,” “out the drive,”* “wish he wouldn’t be sore,”*)(*yes I know these aren’t like, specifically not-American, but as someone who has grown up with North American English in the same generation as Taylor, these definitely feel anachronistic/foreign. Like if I hear someone say “the shops” instead of “the store,” “drive” instead of driveway or “sore” meaning upset, I’m thinking they either watch a lot of 1950s movies or they’re from the UK. And yes I know it’s to make everything rhyme BUT THAT’S THE POINT SHE IS MAKING THEM RHYME ON PURPOSE ok I’m stopping now before the linguistics nerd in me jumps out) It’s such a cool merging of influences, much like the album as a whole fuses together experiences and muses and sounds.
And that gets back to the “I love this place for so long,”of it all. The place is the city, the place is her home, the place is the person, and they are all part of her. To me, these are part of the subtext of the album, of the big love she once felt for all of it, and how it changed her. And, why it hurt so much to leave it all behind. So she’s starting over back home in America, but she’s taking a little bit of London with her for its curtain call on TTPD.
#it’s kind of like how her intonation on anti-hero was a little more English than her standard accent#though that also worked with the 80s sound of it#the tortured poets department#writing letters addressed to the fire
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It's Bothering me so much that Taylor Swift is so fake smart-girl coded, I need to say this:
I have a degree in both Philosophy and English Literature....
She used the term Soliloquy wrong in her song by using it to refer to people espousing nonsense while complaining in an echo-chamber about her.
Instead, a soliloquy is the most honest and introspective a character will ever be. Often the character will stand to the front center of the stage and, as if in a dream, speak openly to themselves (and in respect to the audience) lay out the truth, or the agony of whichever conflict haunts the plot. So, anyway she's just plain wrong in her usage of the term.
I am not giving a sanctimonious soliloquy. Miss Taylor Swift, you are wrong, and I am speaking honestly.
She finishes the lyric "sanctimoniously performing soliloquies I'll never see" and I just want to mention that a soliloquy requires an audience... so she does not know what she is talking about by saying that there is no audience for a soliloquy.
Also, for the record, I don't think Taylor Swift knows anything of substance about Aristotle. I, on the other hand, took a three-hour long oral exam over Aristotle's life work while out-of-my-mind-high on Dayquil and pain meds after a surgery. I got an "A", and, somehow, I lived through that, I doubt the validity of Swift's claims to know anything at all about philosophy. Especially, considering how all her songs are about as deep as a puddle.
She's completely lost her credibility.
The woman did not even finish High School in a traditional, well-rounded way. I think she read a handful of Joe's books and now thinks real highly of herself.
Edit: I don't mean to make fun of her for being dumb. I'm frustrated that she's "stepping on my lawn" and making her legion of fans think that she totally knows what she's talking about when it comes to literary references in her work or philosophy. It's obvious that she does not actually understand the concepts she attempts to engage with.
Her only real literary skill is name dropping actually talented writers or philosophers in her songs.
Edit 2: Since some people want to come on this post and tell me that I am being needlessly pedantic about her use of words. Go away. A soliloquy is an ancient literary form, one which transcends cultures and centuries, and I, as a scholar of English Literature, am in the position to say that Swift is speaking about the form incorrectly. She obviously did not even google the form, it's clear she has very little real acquaintance with half the literature concept or authors she names drops.
Sure, soliloquies can be unreliable (Hamlet's "To Be, or not to be" is the most obvious example). However, the fact of the matter is that soliloquy hinges on the Honesty of the character. Swift writing that it's actually the opposite of honesty proves to me that she has no real idea about the literary form.
#anti taylor swift#taylor swift eras#taylornation#taylor swift#taylurking#english literature#english lit student#philosophy#joe alwyn#free joe alwyn#the tortured poets department#ttpd#ts ttpd#ts the tortured poets department#ts theories#I'm a professional Taylor Swift Critic
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it’s funny because they barely lasted half an hour👹💉
#meanwhile us manga readers had to endure literal YEARS-#all the memes on twt made me remembr when someone who didnt watch bsd saw a screenshot& thought they were in a mental hospital &like ? yeah#anyways bsd & ttpd were both made for mentally ill English major grads (me)🫰🫶#tiny & squishy boys✨ amidst the chaos👹#fyodor#fyodor dostoevsky#fyodor fanart#dazai#osamu dazai#sigma bsd#nikolai gogol#chuuya nakahara#dazai fanart#fyozai#artists on tumblr#bsd#bungou stray dogs#bungo stray dogs#bsd fanart#bungou stray dogs fanart#bungo stray dogs fanart#anime#bsd manga#mersault#ttpd#taylor swift#the tortured poets department#you wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me#memes#fanart
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tomorrow, my life will be different, tomorrow, i'll leave, tomorrow, i'll stop being in love. however, today i won't, today i'll let you eat at my heart until i don't have one, today i will be the subject of your torture one last time and tomorrow i will leave.
#words#poetry#english literature#writers and poets#poems on tumblr#quotes#aesthetic#literature#reading#writers on tumblr#love#leaving#trying#searching#waiting for you#kneeling#tortured poets department#hope#web weaving#web weave
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so im not sure if anyones interested, but, i went through quite a bunch of totk critiques by people who were also very disappointed with it and thought id share my favorite videos i found (granted, i only really wachted those that youtube recommened and its mostly .. white men... things like the orientalism problem are not mentioned at all for example, maybe ill update this post if i find any more diverse voices)
i dont agree with every single point and also dont know most of the channels (aside from the big zelda theory guys) so i judged solely by what they mentioned in those videos and the quality of it (like the audio .. bc i cant listen to bad audio)
in no particular order, also they talk about or use footage of the literal ending stuff so if you arent done with the game yet, better leave these for now
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(the following one is a podcast thing by multiple zelda theory guys, there some stuff you can skip at the start thats just kidna random things, but the video is marked with chapters)
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(theres some mention of some things not making sense, like the sonau only being two, and ithink thats kinda bc the english translation was weirdly vague about that, in the german version its much more directly said that they all died out and only rauru and mineru were left of them;
also mentions of how unfitting it is to call the enigma stones "secret"stones in english might come from a similar thing; in german they where called "Mysterienstein" which would be translated as mystic/mysterious/enigma- stone
just wanted to mention that since the vast majority are gonna play it in english only and the stuff online is also dominated by english)
#ganondoodles talks#zelda#totk#ganondoodles rants#not really#but it kinda fits in the theme#some things are a lil too complainy for complainings sake#but overall those are the ones i felt spoke about alot of the broader problems#Youtube#also i dont ... like the english translations of these games#and im not a fan of the english voice acting either tbh#idk whats with zelda in particular#and i dont want to shit on translators#but man#some weird translation choices have done active damage in the whoe lore department#plus its jsut kinda .. weird and unecessary at times#why call it gloom?? miasma sound way more connected to malice and actually menacing#secret stones??? why?? mystic or engima is right there plus its confusing bc they .. are not secret at all??#makes stuff complicated too bc im using the words i know but in english almost every name is totally different#why not ... keep the names of the og japanese??#i know german is guilty of changing stuff too#but my point stands
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throwback tuesday to that time when i took one of the few large lecture hall classes i ever took in college, a class on pre-1500s English literature, and the professor (a balding man with a British accent who banned computers because, according to him, he once caught someone watching Shrek 2 on a laptop during the lecture and he was upset it wasn't Shrek 1) stopped in the middle of talking about Beowulf to a hundred students to ask ME SPECIFICALLY (in the back half of the room but not all the way at the back) if I was using my smartphone under the table, so I had to lift up my hands and show him that no, I was knitting because the class had a bunch of printouts so I didn't need to take notes but the man wouldn't let me play spider solitaire or scroll tumblr and I had to do SOMETHING with my hands, and he was like, "ah, weaving peace I see. it seems we have the peaceweaver in our class" and then just carried on with things
#pickle pontificates#i'm not even mad. he was just eccentric enough to get away with it#always annoys me a bit though when college professors are like that#like girl you realize that a significant portion of students take notes electronically right. and if someone's watching shrek 2 then idk ma#it's their college experience. you're still getting paid#the lame beowulf joke did make beowulf stick in my head though#was it worth being perceived by 100 people at once for no reason? that's still up for debate#now the TA for that class. that guy actually sucked#a year later i was still running into people who just had the worst time with him. straight A eloquent friendly newspaper editor students#like the kind of students professors just love. engaged and respectful and earnest and talented. and they all hated that guy's guts#i had a gossip right in the english department about it. kinda scary. was afraid he'd come around the corner
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i will say im a windclan moor >>> windclan prairie truther in my heart but i also think looking at "warrior cats is set in the new forest/england/the uk" and going "no it's not. it's actually set wherever i live" is awesome so whatever. whatever you think is right and whatever i think is right. 10 billion creative and inspired by personal experience warrior cats settings forever
#USamerican fans you guys may be oversaturating the headcanon department due to how many of you there are#but it's not like the series' setting is concrete anyways and also fuck england#if the series was set somewhere in the usa the wildlife would be way more diverse and interesting at least#and who is anyone to rob someone of going to some sort of open field or plain or hill near them and going wow...... windclan territory#that being said heather and gorse is pretty#also to be clear this isnt meant to be dismissive of anyones opinions on this rather just accepting of Them All#if youre very passionate about the sanctity of english warrior cats then i also respect that#i just think arguments about beavers/mountain lions or whatever is silly when everyone is bringing their own vision
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Srinath University Hosts Farewell Party for BA and MA Graduates
Joyful Farewell Party for Graduating English Department Students at Srinath University The Department of English at Srinath University organized a farewell party for the outgoing batches of BA (2021-2024) and MA (2022-2024) on July 13, 2024. JAMSHEDPUR – The Department of English at Srinath University celebrated the farewell of their BA (2021-2024) and MA (2022-2024) graduates on July 13,…
#शिक्षा#BA graduates#Chancellor Sukhdeo Mahato#Controller O P Sharma#Dean D.K. Shukla#Dean J Rajesh#Department of English#Dr. Puja Srivastava#education#farewell party#MA graduates#Mr. and Miss Farewell#Srinath University#student performances#Vice Chancellor S. N. Singh
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#iwtv#.txt#throwback to me being really tipsy at the english departments christmast party last week and then talking to my professor about iwtv 😬#interview with the vampire
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happy august. 🍃
#august#to live for the hope of it all#summer love#taylor swift#the tortured poets department#poetry#literature#writings#swifties#english#all's fair in love and poetry#thetorturedpoetsdepartment#ts11
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Taylor Swift is Derivative nonsense, not intellectually placed allusions. I'll die on this hill, and I have many more examples beyond just the one listed below.
Let’s talk about the difference between being derivative and utilizing allusion in text. :)
I’ve seen a lot of defenses for Taylor Swift’s work that hinges on the theoretical concept of intertextuality. People don’t often know that they are arguing over the validity (or emotional impact) of intertextual cessions in Swift’s writing, but they are.
Intertextuality, if you don’t already know, is a set of determinable interwoven texts that all correspond on a particular thematic point. This encompasses, but is not limited to, the literary device of allusion.
There are many examples of intertextual works, since it is intrinsically post-modern. Yet, I want to talk about how Taylor Swift attempts allusions that only ever fall into flat-facing derivative blandness. I want to talk about how, yes, Swift is in the spirit of the age; yet her work devolves into derivative insincerity simply because she is not an artistic writer.
Now, for an egregiously bad allusion. (I think it’s worse because Romeo and Juliet is my favorite Shakespeare play). In “The Albatross” Swift writes, “A rose by any other name is a scandal” in which the obvious allusion is to Shakespeare's, “A Rose by any other name would smell as sweet” from the play Romeo and Juliet. The line in the play is often misquoted, so perhaps Swift is just ignorant, however the line means to draw attention to the fact that names are just words the that do not actually dictate the internal nature of someone.
The full line, from Shakespeare, reads “O be some other name/ What’s in a name? That which we call a rose/ by any other name would smell as sweet;/ So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call’d” (Romeo and Juliet). Thus, Juliet is lamenting the full divisive way in which her family is at odds with Romeo’s family; upon deeper consideration too, Juliet is modulating how social pressures, often outside our control particularly in youth, can impact and modify the discourse between reality, doing what is proper in accordance with the majority, and intrinsic human desire to fulfill our own needs. So, the line is not only explaining how Romeo and Juliet cannot be together overtly due to familial dispute, but in the same words it explains the full breadth of social dissertation for the pursuit of individual need. Afterall, he would still be Romeo "were he not Romeo call'd." Juliet is admitting that she would still love him with or without the constraint of social obligation due the environment, or family, in which we are born; thus, we can see how individually human desire can be placed at odds with the demands of mainstream society.
This is a nuanced conversation when considering it through moral theory. For instance, we often talk about how people should not go against the mainstream for immoral pursuit of individual desire and that is reasonable; yet herein Shakespeare's work the thematic point is on the morality of love and desire to go against social convention. Shakespeare is saying, "Love is a greater moral good than that of social obligation to follow tradition and to hate who you are trained to hate based on parental teaching." It's a genius fucking line, in a genius fucking play. Now, we all know how the play ends, the lovers run off together, they have a brief day in the sun. However, social pressure and adult obligation catch up to them again and thus they die for it. They die for their courage to love and to go against the mainstream.
Let’s return to Taylor Swift, the human embodiment of mainstream social pressure, as she writes that "a rose by any name is a scandal." As such, she is saying that all roses everywhere are just a scandal waiting to happen. If everything is a scandal, rather than speaking to any nuance grief to the pervasiveness' of social pressure to adhere to mainstream. Swift is simply throwing petulance to the world, by saying “Rose by any other name is a scandal” she limits what a rose could be, or become in using the verb “is” to fully solidify a rose as a scandal; which is a message that is diametrically opposed to the thematic point Shakespeare is making with his line. For Swift, there is no redemption, no nuance, and there is no subtext in which implicit messaging lay to tell people that going against the mainstream might just be the last thing you ever do but God is it worth it. To live with that brief day in the sun. And die for courage. Swift is just saying the opposite and stating that the mainstream is inevitable- there is no use in fighting it. A name is a name. It remains to tell the rose exactly what it is. Swift lacks imagination.
I would argue that Swift does make obvious attempts at allusion in her work, yet it is so poorly done because she does not actually see or use the thematic point of the source material from which she pulls her allusions. For allusions, to be done in an artistic impactful manner, we must keep to the thematic point of the source material. When the allusion is done correctly there is a “layering” effect in literature that redoubles the overarching themes of human experience in a way that calls us from the past, Shakespeare, to the present. Thus, is the theory of intertextuality in literary works.
(I made that bold because it's the main point of this, and I don't want anyone to miss it).
Taylor Swift’s work here simply does not measure up to anything artistic, thoughtful, or well-done. It is simply derivative of Shakespeare, but I don't think it qualifies as a true allusion.
#anti taylor swift#the tortured poets department#ex swiftie#ttpd#shakespeare#romeo and juliet#philosophy#moral theory#literary theory#literary criticism#english lit student#the albatross
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Where's the line between monster, human, and God?
- My writing
#quote#original quote#spilled thoughts#spilled ink#writing#writer#spilled words#spilled writing#spilled poetry#writerblr#bookblr#books#english literature#literature#lit#words#poem#poetry#prose#spilled heart#spilled feelings#angst#whump#the tortured poets department#dark aesthetic#dark academia#girl rotting#goth#gothic#rot
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I could not stop producing madness
-Cassandra, Christa Wolf
#quotes#poetry#poets on tumblr#web weave#web weaving#dark academia#art#cassandra#taylor swift#i am listening to taylor swift#ttpd art#taylor swift ttpd#ttpd#the tortured poets edit#the tortured poets department: anthology#the tortured poets department#the tortured poets society#myth#greek mithology#christa wolf#madness#female rage#female hysteria#webweawing#dark academic aesthetic#dark academia quotes#chaotic academia#light academia#english literature#poetry parallels
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Disconnected Reality
Presenting— eyes glued to glowing screens, bored minds wander, scrolling through the mundane.
In Physical Education, a break from the routine, fingers reach for solace, in the digital, familiar glow.
Lost in a sea of pixels and images, what clouds their judgment? Cursed handphones, stealing connection, one swipe at a time.
I watch, disgusted by the epiphany, realizing I can do nothing to stop the swiping.
#spilled words#quotes#poems on tumblr#poems and poetry#poetry#spilled thoughts#spilled poetry#literature#english literature#prose#poem#original poem#poetic#prose poetry#poems#words words words#poets on tumblr#writers and poets#poetrycommunity#the tortured poets department#tortured poets society#tortured poets era#the tortured poets society#the tortured poets dept#tortured poets department#deep words#words#my words#beautiful words#lit
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