A nice lady, but you never know what is going on and what you're supposed to be doing. Sometimes she starts rambling on about history while the class sits and stares with wonder Also, expect to do A LOT of paper re-writing. Be prepared for some extreme paper writing. She's a real charactor. I honestly didn't know what to make of her, but I ended up liking her.
Very strict grader, but she lets you re write. When she says "writing intensive," she means it. What she doesn't tell you is "off topic intensive. The class isn't easy, but she is one of …more the nicest teachers I've met so far. She's very helpful with rewrites. She may be a bit corny.. I think she's a refreshing personality after having apathetic professors for a few terms. She's sooooo corny and confusing. In modern poetry, you will sometimes find that the sentences are incomplete or very difficult to make sense of, even when you have worked out the grammar of them.
Perhaps being a little obscure was part of the poet's point. At any rate, you can more easily point to what is troubling you, you can contribute to class impressively if you have done your homework with the language. Bear in mind, being able to work out the grammar, or syntax, of what you are reading gives you a powerful skill: in everyday reading tasks, it will incline you to read accurately as well as quickly; in hard tasks, as in reading outside your field, reading for instance philosophy or science, you may again find it helpful to slow down and work out the syntax of what you are reading so that you are not guessing at the meaning or at least you minimize how much you are guessing.
To read a poem properly, you must start with the most literal sort of reading you can do. From Structure to Theme : Consider also how the argument of the poem develops. Divide it into sections corresponding to steps in the development of a theme. Look for what creates tension in the poem and for what resolves that tension. What pleasures does the poem offer? Answering that question may take you outside formalist analysis, but is also likely to take you into the poet's use of figures of speech.
You should not get too committed to a statement of theme until you have done all your work of reading and analysis, but as you work out the structure, or arrangement of the matter of the poem, you will be moving toward some general notions of the theme.
Figures of speech : I use this term in its most general sense, to include figures that demand logical analysis, like simile, metaphor types of analogies , synecdoche, metonymy, antithesis, hyperbole, irony, personification--also called tropes from Greek tropos a turn --as well as rhetorical figures that demand grammatical analysis i.
For a partial list, see "Rhetorical Terms. Margaret F. Toronto: Pontifical Institute, In the Middle Ages, teachers adapted classical rhetoric for particular functions, inventing arts of poetry, preaching, and letter-writing. Geoffrey's art of poetry is a poem that demonstrates what it teaches. Pretend that you are a medieval student and learn composition from one of the most important school texts of the high and later Middle Ages, C; both elementary and advanced students learned their figures and tropes here.
A Handbook to Literature , ed. Holman and William Harmon. New York: Macmillan, Frequently revised, full of information, modestly priced for what you get, this book is really helpful for English majors--but you have to look for rhetorical figures among lots of other topics, alphabetically arranged. Richard A. Lanham, A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms. Berkeley: U of California P, Renaissance scholar and long time director of composition at UCLA, Lanham offers a nearly classical approach to the figures; this handbook is especially useful to students whose main interests lie in Renaissance through eighteenth-century literature.
Abrams, A Glossary of Literary Terms. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Enlarged and revised, this old standby dictionary-handbook includes entries on relatively recent theoretical approaches to literature, but it has gotten sloppy, pretentious, and expensive; the Handbook above is a better buy.
Alex Preminger, ed. New edition, Good and entertaining reference; longish articles. Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herrennium attributed to Cicero ; De inventione ; Orator ; and Quintillian, The Institutes see Loeb Classical Library editions, with English translations , are the major Latin transmitters to Western culture of ancient rhetorical tradition, which includes the systematic identification and definition of rhetorical figures. Rhetoric developed for the training of orators in political speaking and especially in legal argument.
Its roots are oral. It concerns expository prose. Edward P. Corbett, Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student , 2nd ed. I put in no effort besides doing the readings and got an A. Oct 22nd, She never knew what she was talking about. She would make assignments for group projects, but not even be sure herself as to what she wanted from each project. Also, she would only read for every class; nothing new or different. Be sure to buy the book though!
It's used a lot!! The only way I would call her a decent teacher was if she was a museum guide. As a professor, she simply sucks. She excels at talking down to students and arbitrary assignments. She gives rambling and irrelevant lectures. She lost my paper and another student's exam. Oct 15th, If you are majoring in this kinda stuff, it's a good class but if you aren't, then I don't suggest taking it.
She doesn't seem to get that people aren't in love with the subject. Nor that we are not taking it for mere pleasure. We are taking it because some of us are forced into it. It's a lot of reading. And dumb essays. Sep 9th, May 8th, She is one of the wierdest people i've ever had to sit and listen to. Her lectures bore you, but you can tell she knows SOOO much about what she is teaching. If my class wasnt over people maybe she would have been better. Well i dont know it ended up with like people haha.
She is okay, gives extra credit and easy quizes. May 6th, She loves what she's talking about, but she didn't really make me love it. Classes were long and didn't really dive into the reading. Most classes she just read what were supposed to have read for that class. Boring and a lot of reading. Apr 18th, Taking Chaucer was like doing a tour of duty: You hate it while you're there, but afterward you just can't stop talking about it and on a some grotesque level of masochism, you kinda wish you were still there.
On a more positive note, she's the best copy editor I ever had and knows more about Chaucer than anyone should. Apr 11th,
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