Hey All, Below is a recap of our last discussion section:

Harris’ final exam is structured as follows:

Section 1. (15pts) Multiple Choice, 15 questions

Section 2. (5pts) Short Answer, 2 questions

Section 3. (20pts) Passage Recognition and Analysis (4 passages)

Please remember to bring in a short excerpt from one of the following authors for our review day:

• Kerouac
• Smart
• Woolf
• Anderson
• Brennan
• Parkman
• Child
• Eliot (from The Wasteland)

http://people.umass.edu/sharris/in/e131s/FinalExamGuide.pdf

Hi All,

Just a reminder that we will not be meeting as a class this Thursday – Instead, you are required to respond to your discussion leaders’ questions on the blog by posting a comment. You must respond to one of the questions posed by each of the discussion leaders for your section.  (This means that discussion leaders should be extra careful to add the section time to the post.)

We went over this in class, but if you have any questions, please contact me.  All comments should be posted to the blog by midnight Thursday, 11/15.

One last note, be sure to log-in before posting to the blog so your name shows up in the comment.  On the right-hand side of this page, if you scroll down, you should see a log-in button (in the bubble titled ‘Meta’).

Maeve Brennan Reading

Hey All,

I think Harris has posted this reading to his website as well, but here it is again – you will be responsible for the entire PDF.

Hi All – Final exam schedules have been released:

Final exam date and time for this class is Monday 12/10 at 4PM in Bartlett 65

Please check your SPIRE and notify me if you have another final conflicting with this date and time.

How to Read ‘The Waste Land’

Click the link above for an article published in The Chronicle regarding the relevance of Eliot’s poem – It’s a bit lengthy, but I recommend scanning it (at least) as the author contextualizes Eliot’s work quite nicely and in very accessible language.

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Hey All,

Check out this site hosted by the New York Times – Anderson lived in Elyria for a period of time, and these articles paint a really interesting picture of contemporary  life in this region.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/10/14/us/this-land-elyria-ohio.html#/#donnas-diner

Winesburg, Ohio by Anderson – please focus on the following chapters for this week’s class discussion:

“The Book of the Grotesque”
“Hands”
“Paper Pills”
“Mother”
“The Philosopher”
“Nobody Knows”

1. In “We Are Seven” do you think there is a reason why Wordsworth chose a young girl and a man to represent the different ideas of death that they do?

1. One of the themes in “The Idiot Boy” is maternal passions. In your opinion, does the poem seem to focus more on Johnny, or the love his mother has for him? How might this appeal to Wordsworth’s audience of the “rustics”?

Hi All,

Hopefully you’ve all noticed that we have a guest speaker on our calendar for our Marvell discussion – Mike Wall, a fourth year poet in the Masters of Fine Arts program here at UMass will be leading our discussion (in conjunction with our discussion leaders), focusing on “To His Coy Mistress”.

If you are a discussion leader tomorrow, please post your questions – I’ll give these questions to Mike as well.

See you all tomorrow!

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This is just for fun – and for all you Rupert Everett fans