Stevie Smith

So my rough draft is.... ROUGH like rough enough to cut you!! I need to do a lot more on the analysing part of it but i hope its good enough for credit at least. I think that i just need to get to know my author a little better ya know get all up close and personal and then I will be able to write about her better!?! Yeahh lol

I also have found out that cheese puffs are not the ideal food choice when typing, just a heads up doesn't work the greatest!

Ohh yes and everyone has decided to post who their author is, so i will go with the flow, mines Stevie Smith (a woman) who is fascinated with death, slightly (rly) morbid, has strong opinions when it comes to the topic of feminism (I think), has an ambiguous sight when it comes to religion and is, as I believe a sad person inside, sad and alone. Her poems flow like nursery rhymes but their content is morbid. Well that's my summary of Stevie Smith hope you enjoyed it ...

if you took the time to read it cause this looks like a fairly long post (it wasn't supposed to be) but it turned out that way, and I know some of you just skip right over the longer posts!! nonsense!! but I will make it all colorful just for everyone now!

:) have a nice essay writing time and remember its a rough draft, but my meaning of rough draft may differ from lets say Stariha's umm drastically lol

Jenny Joseph

So I'm not doing this author ( obviously, I just posted who I'm doing ) but when I was looking for someone I was looking at her writings and she has a really famous poem called "Warning"...it's really like, interesting? I'm not sure, but it seemed like it'd be cool to analyze or if anyone just wants to check out the poem it's interesting! I was gonna do her but I mean cmon, the person I picked has my name AND she's italian! Couldn't be fate any more! lol :P

Christina Rossetti

I found a british writer who has the same name as me :)
I looked up some of her poems and stuff, and as I was researching her I found out alot about her rough life; so I'm thinking she will be interesting to analyze!:)

-summer couldn't come soon enough...-

since it's teacher appreciation week I might as well say
i appreciate you mrs. stariha :)
i mean dont get me wrong i'd definitely appreciate you alot more if we just didn't have a test, or exam or anything, buuuuuut of course i still appreciate you regardless ;)

guess what?

just to let you guys know....the doctors think i broke my wrist. its really hard to type with one hand...especially ur left hand. anyway i feel like crap so be nice to me tomorrow, if u are i may share some of my pain meds with you.... ;) lol I'm being serious...

ahh :(

Well half way through this paper and guess what... my Internet does something crazy and decides it doesn't want to work... almost gave me a mini heart attack!! So now I am going to Finnish this none sense (research) and eat some leftover cookies. I believe I am suppressing my anger in food ...no good ohh well !! haha

William Golding

So I'm super happy with the author I picked. (: I found a ton of info on William Golding and I spent most of tonight looking at Essays and most of his works. So I still have a ton of work I need to get done. The Wuthering Heights project. I have a Spanish project. I also have to blog about Wuthering Heights and poetry and all that good stuff. Hmm. I have track regionals tomorrow so I'm just going to push things off until Saturday(:

Coffee......Check!

Well...
I guess I didn't realize how much work this part one was going to be.
I had my author picked and started doin some research and then I read Megan's post and I realized it would probably be a good idea to make sure there were some critical essays written about her.
Well...there were zero that I could find.
So I picked a more well known writer.
And I'm just getting ready to start.
And it's 9:32...
Which is.....2 minutes past my bed time.
I'm not usually very productive this late but I'm gonna do it.
I've got my coffee and I'm ready for a long night.
Wish me luck!

More Peer Review?

Is that what we are planning for tomorrow, more peer review on the bios that we are working on tonight? Or are we going to talk about Wuthering Heights? If we have to review each others papers than that is fine with me but other wise the reading assignment is so long for tomorrow. I have heard both so I am not completely sure who or what to believe.

I Give Up

I am so discouraged right now, I have looked up over 15 British Poets and have found zero critical essays on them, and I've tried looking under different searches like "Walter De La Mare Critical Essays" "Laurie Lee Critical Analysis" "T.S. Eliot Poetry Reviews" and "Edith Sitwell Deeper Meanings" and nothing just crappy websites that want me to pay to see these other essays! HELP STARHIA!!!! I am soo stuck, I thought I had a good author and I could only find two published essays online, I am convinced that this project is 100% impossible.

Not gonna happen

So I'm pretty sure that my author (a. a. milne, whinnie the pooh) did not have a significant role in that time period....so how am I supposed to do that part of checkpoint one?!?!?! I'm so stuck here, and extremely stressed out because I just realized that the Wuthering Heights project is due next week!!! What the crap really!! and thats our last full week of school, ok freak out moment!!!!

Bio

Ok so how many paragraphs should thr bioagraphy be? Cuz so far i gots 3

Lightening connection.

Storms seem to be a constant throughout literature. Lightening is used in Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, and Jane Eyre. In Frankenstein, lightening was the inspiration for the creation of the monster. After Victor watched a storm he became fascinated with the concept of lightening and life. Then in Wuthering Heights and in Jane Eyre lightening destroys trees after momentous decisions. In Jane Eyre (I know no one else knows what I'm talking about but I'm going to make the connection anyway) the night after Jane agrees to marry Mr. Rochester, lightening strikes and destroys a great tree. Then in Wuthering Heights, after Catherine decides to marry Edgar a storm hits. Lightening "spilt a tree off at the corner of the building: a huge bough fell across the roof" (83). I think that the destruction of trees and storms is connected with the destruction that will eventually come from all the decisions.

Not Love... but luv

I thought of a good way to describe the feelings between Catherine and Heathcliff (well it makes sense to me anyway). They aren't close enough to be considered in love with eachother, its much shallower than that. I liked the word "luv" to describe it. It doesn't have as much depth as the full word, yet there are still strong feelings. I don't know, thought that was a clever way of putting it. Maybe not though... haha

Wuthering Heights and the Poems

In the the fourth stanza of the Darkling Thrush, we talked about how the bird's song caused happiness and joy to the man listening even though he did not know why. This can somewhat relate to Wuthering Heights because, like I said in my freewrite today, Catherine and Heathcliff are always drawn to eachother even though they do not know why. I think they were pre-destined to be together (making them soulmates).

In "Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?", Thomas Hardy was speaking from a woman's point of veiw. Line 27 says "That one true heart was left behind!" she is saying how she has been forgotten and that her heart is no longer with her... I think this can relate to the point in Wuthering Heights when Heathcliff leaves. Catherine felt forgotten and that Heathcliff didn't care about her. I think she left her heart behind before entering into the marriage with Edgar.

Connection from Wuthering Heights to poems?

In The Darkling Thrush it talks about a singing bird and how the man doesn't get why the bird is singing because he only sees the bad in the world. The bird gives the man hope and optimism. Which is not present in Wuthering Heights. The part that I think is like Wuthering Heights is the dark and gloomy beginning.

In Ah, Are You Digging on MY Grave? the woman dies and finds out that everyone has forgotten about her. Even her dog. This is also not like Wuthering Heights because Catherine dies but her spirit remains to torment Heathcliff and she is not forgotten.