Subjective Truth

So remember last Friday when we were talking about truth in texts and somehow got on the subject of Georgia O'Keefe? Well one of the other blogs I follow had this post for Mother's day.

Enjoy!

Bleeding Heart Cake

For Credit: Final Blog Post from KW

Two questions:

1) What do you honestly think you will retain from this course in five years?
2) What do you hope that you retain from this course in five years (even if it strikes you as unlikely)?

You must answer both.

Deadline: Friday (May 8), noon.

Poems for the Final

Over there in the sidebar are the poems you'll need for the final (in addition to the course reading). The first three poems listed there (Rowe, Jones, and Taylor) are for Part III (you choose one of those to edit, annotate, and interpret).

The Hands poems is for Part IV. (It's one of the four poems you must write about; the first three you've encountered already in this course.)

Good luck! E-mail me if you have questions.

For Credit: The Alpha and the Omega

The first poem you read in this course was Mary Jones's "Holt Water." The last was Anne Finch's "The Spleen." What continuities do you perceive (or not!) between these two poems? Taken together, how do these poems illustrate some of the continuities and themes of the subject matter of this course?

Deadline: Wednesday (5/4), noon.

For Credit: Post an Exam Question Here!

Don't worry--you won't be committing you or your classmates to anything. But think for a moment all that you've encountered and thought about this semester in 300. Survey in your mind the depth and breadth of reading you've covered. And then consider: what sort of question would best allow you to demonstrate your learning in this class?

Propose an essay question for the 300 take-home final here. It should either (a) encourage close reading of poems from the course, (b) allow you to display interpretive and analytical skills that you have gained in your study of C18 women's poetry, (c) draw on the knowledge you have acquired in the course of the semester, or ideally, (d) some combination of (a), (b), and (c).

Deadline: Monday (5/4), noon.