http://emmagood.umwblogs.org a summer & john milton Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:08:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm here going over everything, specifically "A Masque at Ludlow Castle" right now, and my notes in the margins and in my notebook are really quite funny. I read them aloud to Madeline and Rachel today already, but they are striking me as very entertaining right now, especially out of ... http://emmagood.umwblogs.org/2008/07/23/madly-studying-and-therefore-going-a-little-mad/ Like Madeline, I am going to share my paper with you all:here it is. I wish I had a few more weeks to work on it, but as I told Dr. C before I turned it in, it is what it is. http://emmagood.umwblogs.org/2008/07/23/the-paper/ I meant to blog yesterday, but truly I could not. I had been so intensely thinking about Milton for five days (Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday I was focused on Paradise Lost almost exclusively, everything abandoned for the sake of my presentation and paper) and once everything was done my brain ... http://emmagood.umwblogs.org/2008/07/23/a-few-reflections/ So my presentation on typology has me thinking all about time and the relationships between all the characters, etc. and all the work I've done on it today reminded me of something I"ve had a problem with since Book 3, but never bothered to ask about. So the Son offers ... http://emmagood.umwblogs.org/2008/07/20/maybe-someone-can-explain-this-to-me/ I took Philosophy 151B last semester, which is called Introductory Logic. I had Professor Emswiler, who is a serious trip. I loved her. It is a great great class and I learned a lot; I really recommend taking it. When reading Satan's argument to Eve and talking about it in ... http://emmagood.umwblogs.org/2008/07/18/satans-argument/ So I went from reading the new posts every day and writing pretty frequently to not doing either in almost a week. Ugh. I feel like I just needed to get my feet wet again, remember how to do this. Getting sick really knocked me down for a while there. ... http://emmagood.umwblogs.org/2008/07/17/it-has-been-awhile/ Since we didn't really get to talk about book V in class today (which was fine, what a great class!) I thought I'd write a post about some of my thoughts. I liked this section a lot; Milton sort of gained some points back concerning Eve. She is referred to ... http://emmagood.umwblogs.org/2008/07/10/eve-in-book-v/ Seriously, with all my confusion and interpreting and questions I have really neglected to enjoy Milton's poetry and his unbelievable relationship with words. I thought I'd briefly share this. Sometimes when I was reading Book 3 I would just stare at the page for a few seconds in utter amazement ... http://emmagood.umwblogs.org/2008/07/08/dark-with-excessive-bright-or-milton-has-a-serious-way-with-words/ So for some reason I've been in a Milton-rut for the past few days; I'm not sure if I have just suddenly hit that "holy crap I have a ton of stuff to do" point and that's distracting me, or if I am simply struggling with Paradise Lost. I've been ... http://emmagood.umwblogs.org/2008/07/06/rambling-around-pl-book-2/ I was listening to the NPR Books podcast this morning during work and they featured an interview with Patrick Hemingway, one of Ernest Hemingway's sons. He celebrated his 80th birthday last Saturday and was interviewed to mark the occasion and talk about his father and, of course, his father's books. ... http://emmagood.umwblogs.org/2008/07/02/at-work-thinking-about-milton/