Week 8
    As I wrote my last essay for this class i felt excitement to know that summertime is just around the corner i can taste it! :) I really enjoyed this class and our professor! I am sure everyone would agree that he is one of the best communicators as a professor that we have. That in itself made this class a whole lot better! I am glad i took this class. I cannot wait to see what this has prepared me for in my upcoming classes. I hope everyone studies and does well on finals. Good luck!!! :)

Week Seven
       I have decided to go ahead and finish this class. The only thing i lack now is the web homepage. I needed to finish to get my other classes done before finals. This class allows me to finish ahead of time and I am very greatful. It takes a load of stress off! :) I am still looking forward to team 3 to see what kind of page we can come up with. I would say by far my favorite novel that we read during this class was Mrs. Dalloway. It kept my attention through out the entire novel. I am definitely going to check out more of Virgina Woolf's stuff to see if her other novels catch my attention as well.

Week Six
  I am excited to begin working with group 3. I hope we can communicate well and create a perfect website. The poems this week I thought were very interesting, I especially like T.S Eliots work and think we should look more into him. As we are towards the end i know everyone is stressing out I just hope we can all buckle down and get through it! Summer is right around the corner :) Have a great week and weeks to come.

Week 5

The Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is a really good novel. Here is a link about the Author Charles Dickens http://www.online-literature.com/dickens/ so we can not just learn about his novels but also what kind of an author he is. I hope everyone rememebers to turn in their essay 2 and to have a great week ahead! :)

Week 4
I found the poem by Matthew Arnold, The Forsaken Merman interesting. I suggest that we all look into more of his poems! I am very excited to announce that we are almost finished with this semester!! Then it is time for summer! :) I hope everyone has a great week ahead.

Week 3

Hi everyone! I hope everyone had an awesome spring break :) I just wanted to say that our discussions this week over Frankenstein were really good! Some of us disagreed and agreed with each other and i learned a lot. Here are some other books that Mary Shelley wrote that a few of us may be interested in. If anyone ends up reading any of them let me know what they are like! :)

 

The Last Man (Paperback)
byMary Shelley(shelved 5 times as mary-shelley)
avg rating 3.34 — 2,551 ratings — published 1826

Mathilda (Paperback)
byMary Shelley(shelved 3 times as mary-shelley)
avg rating 3.23 — 472 ratings — published 1819

The Invisible Girl, and The Dream (Paperback)
byMary Shelley(shelved 2 times as mary-shelley)
avg rating 3.46 — 57 ratings — published 1831

Transformation (Paperback)
byMary Shelley(shelved 2 times as mary-shelley)
avg rating 3.54 — 380 ratings — published 2004

A Character by Willliam Wordsworth

Since we have been reading William Wordsworth i looked up more poems he has done and thought I would share this one! Hope everyone likes it!

 

A Character

I marvel how Nature could ever find space
For so many strange contrasts in one human face:
There's thought and no thought, and there's paleness and bloom
And bustle and sluggishness, pleasure and gloom.

There's weakness, and strength both redundant and vain;
Such strength as, if ever affliction and pain
Could pierce through a temper that's soft to disease,
Would be rational peace--a philosopher's ease.

There's indifference, alike when he fails or succeeds,
And attention full ten times as much as there needs;
Pride where there's no envy, there's so much of joy;
And mildness, and spirit both forward and coy.

There's freedom, and sometimes a diffident stare
Of shame scarcely seeming to know that she's there,
There's virtue, the title it surely may claim,
Yet wants heaven knows what to be worthy the name.

This picture from nature may seem to depart,
Yet the Man would at once run away with your heart;
And I for five centuries right gladly would be
Such an odd such a kind happy creature as he.

William Wordsworth