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AMYEM
English Major, lifelong learner, impractical perfectionist.
Painting: Iris Fields - Paul Chester
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Painting: Iris Fields - Paul Chester
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It was my fourth night of erratic insomnia. Scattered pieces of parchment with illegible scribbles decorated my floor, my desk, my chairs. They were full of tactical plays, field maps,and enemy movements within the last span. Half of my bookshelf was on my floor, old tomes and mythical texts opened to one page or another, the ink of my notes blotting through the pages.
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I am from the bones of my parents The process of their love And from the unfair responsibility Of the oldest raising the youngest I am from playing outside until twilight Where curfew was the streetlamps and Crowns were made of twigs and braided blades of grass I am from the disconnect of childhood and adulthood Where third grade was a challenge And Meg started college Feminism and feminist writing have been around for hundreds of years with writings from Mary Wollstonecraft in 1792 to Virginia Woolf’s published work of A Room of One’s Own in 1929. However, the largest and lasting movement of feminism began in the 1960s and begat the product of today’s feminist literary criticism (Barry 116). Literary criticism concerned itself with many things, among them being examining representations of women in literature by both men and women, challenging representations of women as ‘other’ or part of ‘nature’, and examining the effects of language in making what is social seem natural, as well as Écriture féminine – the idea that there is a uniquely feminine way of writing. Using this lens, one can look at nearly any piece of literature and evaluate the representations of the multifaceted roles of sex and gender in a work. While feminist literary criticism is a facet of the overarching movement of today’s feminism, it still plays an important role in influencing and changing modern beliefs and actions. The key to feminist literary criticism is not just simply pointing out that they exist, but explaining its significance and impact.
Circe and the sirens are a staple of Greek mythology. They are both temptresses that lure in men and either kidnap them, like Circe, or send them to their doom, like sirens. It is interesting for Louise Glück to include these staples in her poems and how she ties it into the topic of adultery. The title of Circe's Torment contains multiple interpretations in its own way - the torment Circle inflicts upon her men, but the poem looks at the torment of herself.
High school was painful. There's that joke that's been going around on twitter lately that says something along the lines of "every person who was depressed in high school was attached to their English teacher", and I've never felt more called out. My senior year of high school, one of the English classes I took was about social issues in which we looked at primarily mental health in society. We read Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar. Our final project included doing a multi-genre research project in which we could choose the subject. Now, after reading those novels I was pretty entranced in the mental health theme. I already am enthralled by mental and mood disorders and have a close connection with depression and anxiety and suicide. For the research project I did an infographic section on depression, a photo portfolio of what it is like to live with depression, and I wrote an original story loosely (or maybe not so loosely) based on my own life and excruciating turmoil I was living in, all through my protagonist Margaret.
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