Does “Analysis” Destroy the Love of Reading?
Many people claim that literary analysis ruins reading – but that perspective reveals a misunderstanding of the term “analysis”
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Obvious Does Not Mean Basic
This afternoon, I will be participating in a Podcast on Hamlet in which I hope to invite people to read Shakespeare’s play and to look for what is obvious. Meanwhile, I’m reading the Iliad for the Apprenticeship and have been thinking quite a bit about how to read and to teach it. My teaching mantra …
POTW: On Meaning in Poetry
“Recuerdo” by Edna St. Vincent Millay We were very tired, we were very merry– We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry. It was bare and bright, and smelled like a stable– But we looked into a fire, we leaned across a table, We lay on a hill-top underneath the moon; And …