Lawrence and the Rocking Horse

Lawrence, D.H. "The Rocking Horse Winner." Print.

Joyce Recap

Joyce, James. "Eveline." Print.

An Araby Critique

Shayne Nakagawa and Brandon Kubo
"Araby" Critique

https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AbhUJltxTlblZGQybXYydzlfMGN0ZHAydnJt&hl=en&authkey=CKbhzPkC

Yeats Tour

Kipling Short Story

1) Title: "Lispeth"

2) A key theme in this short-story is the fact that Christianity makes people strong and beautiful. Once a person drifts away from the religion, he/she will become frail and weak. Another important moral that is shown in the short-story is the importance to always tell the truth, even if the truth may hurt. Christians should never lie; therefore, the Chaplain's wife was wrong to lie about the Englishman returning to marry Lispeth.

3) This short-story was pretty good and engaging. Unlike many other short-stories, this story progressed very well and had interesting ideas that occurred throughout the whole story. The fact that this story spoke about "love at first sight" was probably another reason why this story was interesting, since it seems that many people have mixed opinions about it. To be able to notice that the author's views of "love at first sight" were similar to mine was pretty cool, mainly because the way that the events unwrapped after Lispeth's "love" to the Englishman was very similar to the way I would describe a "love at first sight" relationship.   

Kipling, Rudyard. "Lispeth." Read Book Online. Web. 11 Apr. 2011. <http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/2478/>.

Hopkins

"God's Grandeur"

By: Gerard Manley Hopkins

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.

It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;

It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil

Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?

Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;

And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;

And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil

Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

And for all this, nature is never spent;

There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;

And though the last lights off the black West went

Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs —

Because the Holy Ghost over the bent

World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

The last line, "World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings," clearly shows the literary characteristic of alliteration. There is a repetition of the sounds in both the letters "w" and "b" throughout the whole line, but mainly the letter "w."

Hopkins, Gerard. “Pied Beauty.” British Literature. Ed. Ronald A Horton. 2nd ed. Greenville, SC: BJU Press, 2003. 675. Print.

Hopkins, Gerard. “God’s Grandeur.” British Literature. Ed. Ronald A Horton. 2nd ed. Greenville, SC: BJU Press, 2003. 676. Print.

Answer to the White Queen's Riddle

The answer to "The White Queen's Riddle" seems to be some kind of shellfish, probably an oyster or a clam.


An ironic and unexpected twist that was shown in "The Walrus and the Carpenter" was the fact that all of the oysters end up getting eaten. We, as readers, were unaware of this fact until the very end of the story, when the Carpenter received no response.

Carroll, Lewis. “The Walrus and the Carpenter.” British Literature. Ed. Ronald A. Horton. 2nd ed. Greenville, SC: BJU Press, 2003. 652-655. Print. 

Carroll, Lewis. “The White Queen's Riddle.” British Literature. Ed. Ronald A. Horton. 2nd ed. Greenville, SC: BJU Press, 2003. 652. Print.