In my postcolonial lit course, I applied Edward Said’s concept of Orientalism to Haggard’s “She” and Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness.” It’s not pretty.
Tag Archives: Andrew Marvell
Orientalizing the Other
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When Bicycling, Marvels Coast By
Two weeks of cycling in Madison have brought me to this William Stafford poem.
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I Am Lazarus, Come Back from the Dead
Eliot makes devastating use of the parable of the rich man and Lazarus in “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”
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Poems about Charles I and II
With the ascension of Charles III to the throne, I look back at poems that mention the two previous Charleses.
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Young People and Covid Spread
Dr. Birx has blamed the Covid-19 explosion in part on irresponsible young people. Reading the carpe diem poets would have helped her understand them better.
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Ensnar’d with Flow’rs I Fall on Grass
Friday I found utterly dispiriting this past week’s Democratic debates in which candidates lasered in on tiny differences while a fire rages all around us. I haven’t wanted to relax my vigilance regarding Donald Trump since autocrats win when we become so worn down that we stop paying attention. Nevertheless, these two wretched debates made […]
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Dissolving into the Glories of the Sun
Andrew Marvell’s “On a Drop of Dew” compares the soul’s visit to the earth realm to a dew drop. In the process, he references the manna in the wilderness, today’s Old Testament reading.
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Helms’s Attack on Marvell’s “Coy Mistress”
Tales of unexpected attacks against great literature: in 1966 Jesse Helms, later a rightwing North Carolina senator, attacked Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” for providing male students a chance to talk about erotic matter in front of female students.
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