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Literature Ramblings
Thursday, April 27th, 2006 02:18 pmThe talk in my literature course went fine, I really shouldn't have worried about it at all.
Due to the crammed reading list, the topic for today's session was "Modernity and the Irish". Crammed, I tell you... anyway. I was told I should "compare two poems or something". Hm. Well, alright. Since I did not want to make the same mistakes the girl whose talk was on "Goblin Market" and "Kubla Khan" and didn't get through because, obviously, it is absolutly impossible to cram both poems into 45 minutes, I wanted to go for something shorter, but I also was also dying to do "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock".
Well... Wednesday came, the Eliot session... and which poem did we discuss...? Thanks, professor. New poem, since what's the use of discussing a poem with them they already have talked about at length?
So I went for "Musee des Beaux Arts" by W.H. Auden because he is not on the syllabus (crime!!!) and "The Second Coming". I thought maybe we could compare the whole thing to Prufrock after my talk. I did feel they might be a bit too simple for this kind of discussion, but went for it, anyway.
What did my darling tutor have in mind?
'I thought that since our session is on the Irish self and Modernity, we could compare "The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock" to "The Second Coming".' Great minds... Since we were so in sync, all went exceptionally well. Since only four people were there out of our 10 people seminar, I have tons of hand outs left. Grrr. I took the opportunity to further Gerard's and Mirko's education in Russian Media.
Tehe. I love presentations.
Due to the crammed reading list, the topic for today's session was "Modernity and the Irish". Crammed, I tell you... anyway. I was told I should "compare two poems or something". Hm. Well, alright. Since I did not want to make the same mistakes the girl whose talk was on "Goblin Market" and "Kubla Khan" and didn't get through because, obviously, it is absolutly impossible to cram both poems into 45 minutes, I wanted to go for something shorter, but I also was also dying to do "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock".
Well... Wednesday came, the Eliot session... and which poem did we discuss...? Thanks, professor. New poem, since what's the use of discussing a poem with them they already have talked about at length?
So I went for "Musee des Beaux Arts" by W.H. Auden because he is not on the syllabus (crime!!!) and "The Second Coming". I thought maybe we could compare the whole thing to Prufrock after my talk. I did feel they might be a bit too simple for this kind of discussion, but went for it, anyway.
What did my darling tutor have in mind?
'I thought that since our session is on the Irish self and Modernity, we could compare "The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock" to "The Second Coming".' Great minds... Since we were so in sync, all went exceptionally well. Since only four people were there out of our 10 people seminar, I have tons of hand outs left. Grrr. I took the opportunity to further Gerard's and Mirko's education in Russian Media.
Tehe. I love presentations.
