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Reading Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary … oh my, Emma is terribly relatable
E. E. Cummings and T. S. Eliot’s poetry are in the same font, but one is italicized, and the other is bold and also on fire
My trying to retell a story to someone:
-Dante, Inferno
𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔖𝔢𝔠𝔯𝔢𝔱 ℌ𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔬𝔯𝔶 𝔞𝔢𝔰𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔱𝔦𝔠 🏛️🏹🦌
Can you imagine if Rodion Raskolnikov from Crime and Punishment was alive today and asked about his hobbies?
Dude would literally say:
* sleeping on the couch
* fainting
* becoming manic
* definitely not committing murder
I’m sorry but Ernest Hemingway is just… he’s just… he’s the Shakespeare of modern lit. I’m sorry.
(This is how I am introduced, too^)
-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
“Rip Kafka, he would have hated Kafka.”
(A comment I saw on instagram that made me laugh so hard. Then cry.)
-Dante Alighieri, Inferno
Are you even an English/Lit major if you’re not reciting sonnets to your professor in his office for extra credit?
So there’s a film major in one of the ENGL creative writing classes I’m taking, and I don’t think he has ever read a book above a second grade level.
He always interrupts my professor (MULTIPLE TIMES) during the lecture to say that none of the material makes sense to him. This girl I have never even spoken to before looked back at me with a bewildered look on her face when he did this once. All of us are so embarrassed for him.
He argues with our professor the whole time whenever we review a passage from literature, claiming the work to be ineffective and worthless (just because HE doesn’t understand it). I am honestly wordless when this happens.
I’m waiting for my professor to snap and chew his ass out. He needs a good scolding ahaha. So far my professor has been very patient, but direct. I’m waiting for him to tell the kid to drop the class.
D. H. Lawrence was a furry. You cannot convince me otherwise.
One of my most controversial literary takes: I am not an Emily Dickinson fan. (I have nothing against her, she just isn’t my style)
Sometimes I realize that I have 3.5 bookshelves in my room (and I still have a few book stacks on my floor because I don’t have enough bookshelves)
How do you analyze a book, this is the first time for me reading classics (ie philosopie) and I want to understand the ideas in there. One Idea I have that could help me is to write mini essays to keep the idea in mind but if you have any other suggestions please tell me
(If it wasn’t for maths I would’ve been a philosophy major)
Hi, I’m currently writing a long post about how I read and analyze literature, so you can expect that soon. :)
Although, absolutely—mini essays are a great way to help better understand what you’re reading. When I did this in the past, I would rotate between three essay/writing styles:
1. Commonplace entries: I would write out a large passage I found interesting and then analyze it. I would note what I liked about it and what I didn’t like. Just write your thoughts, basically. It doesn’t have to be extraordinarily deep.
2. Discussion question: I would write one question I have about the literature, and then try to answer it. Sometimes, I couldn’t answer it right then, and that’s fine. It’s good to ponder literature. It keeps it alive that way.
3. Reading notes: I would write down anything I found interesting (quotes, ideas, themes, character descriptions, word choices, etc.) for a few pages.
(It’s also interesting to note that I hand-wrote all of these in a journal. I think the act of handwriting helps solidify ideas in your mind).
Those are just some things that I write about if I really need to study a piece of literature. But you can expect my longer and more detailed post soon. Ahaha, I wish you luck with math, and I hope you can study literature and philosophy in your spare time. :) Thank you for asking.
