#English literature student

[pawswithprose]

January 25th 💖

I’ve finished my close reading of Jane Eyre and somehow managed to fall more in love with this story than I already was.

Charlotte Bronte is a master of prose and language. Her writing is exquisite and I underlined so many beautiful descriptions of nature, sunsets and the moors.

I’m actually so excited to write about this book.

[lilwomansanctuary]

after turning 20 i've been feeling emotions and a burden i had never experienced before. because this is my first life and this is for the first time that i've turned 20 and i'm lost and clueless like everyone else. i have never been good at putting my thoughts into words....

this time when i read the little prince i just felt safe and protected from the chaos out there. this book is the reason i started painting again... the reason i started doing things to be happy and not to be perfect.

shall carry antoine exupery's words in my heart forgood "growing up is not the problem, forgetting is"

wish i could meet him and give him a hug. i adore the book, the author and my dear lil prince so much 🤍

[satostar]

problem daughters

morph into their fathers,

much to mothers dismay.

every time i wake up,

i beg to attend your funeral today.

if violence isn’t the answer,

i’ll write words on my own.

get me away from history,

even if i end up alone.

- B.H.

[logaron]

feminism 🤝 othering 🤝 philosophical bullshit

running out of ideas in a last minute english lit essay

[academic-vampire]

ℑ𝔱’𝔰 𝔫𝔬𝔱 𝔤𝔬𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔬 𝔟𝔢 𝔢𝔞𝔰𝔶,

𝔅𝔲𝔱 𝔦𝔱’𝔰 𝔫𝔬𝔱 𝔤𝔬𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔬 𝔟𝔢 𝔞𝔰 𝔥𝔞𝔯𝔡 𝔞𝔰 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔢𝔵𝔭𝔢𝔠𝔱, 𝔢𝔦𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯

[punksp1rt]

Ali Smith, The Whole Story and Other Stories

[silverystardustt]

At its core, every piece of media we ever have consumed and ever will consume — whether it’s art, music, books, movies — is fundamentally about love, or the lack of it.

it’s an inescapable facet of human life. it could be about the love you have for people in your life, or how much you hate your job, or love your city, but the love is always there.

[booksandglitter]

essay writing with a view <3

[crumblinggothicarchitecture]

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.

[rainreads]

[pawswithprose]

February 23rd

I’m learning about cultures, travel and writing and for the classics part of it we are reading The Odyssey. I’m still getting used to Ancient Greek stories but I’m hoping this will be enjoyable.

[lilwomansanctuary]

i have so many books on my tbr, idk where to start. i pick up a book, read one chapter or 10 pages and then dive into another book and the cycle continues. now that i have enough time to read (2 months summer vacation), i'm having so much trouble setting my mind on one book. i have been feeling terribly overwhelmed 🫠

[florasstudyjournal]

research/essay writing 26.09 THU

researching for my english essay at the library today!! writing on the romantics/william blake. ultimately, i’m hapoy i went with blake and this art/literary movement. the discussion he makes surrounding religion in ‘the marriage of heaven and hell’ is reallt captivating and interesting. and the scholarship is nice to read as well!!

i’m just doing some quick research to see how strong my current arguments are represented, or if i need to alter them, or find more scholarship to either argue with or against

also going to the library was a great decision, i actually started writing the bloody thing.

[literatureaesthetic]

at the risk of sounding like an absolute lunatic.....i miss studying books and writing essays on them😭

[academic-vampire]

𝔴𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔴𝔦𝔩𝔩 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔩𝔢𝔞𝔡 𝔶𝔬𝔲?

[timekilla]