Fun with English - Finally!

[annundriel]

I actually really enjoyed Brit Lit today. Joy!

We read three poems by Robert Browning out-loud and discussed them. I'd already read My Last Duchess in high school and luckily that was the last one we did instead of the first. The first one we read was Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister. I liked that. But the one I really liked? Porphyria's Lover.

Has anyone else read Prophyria's Lover though? Because *wow*. It's a great poem, made even greater, IMO, but the one moment of "bwah?!?" about two-thirds through. It's probably a very strange thing for me to be so taken with this poem, but it has really captured my imagination with the tone and the words and the way it begins in medias res.

When I googled it to find the test online, the second link came up with Scott McCloud's graphic approach to the poem. Look, Kasey! He's *everywhere*! He even has his own website. (Doesn't everybody?) Oh Scott, you strange man, go buy new flannel.

Comments

[ginnith.livejournal.com]

The poem would definitely fall in the same category as The Fall of the House of Usher for me. Not because it's sick and twisted like HoU was, but because it's not something that most people would really enjoy. It reads both in verse and as paragraphs and that's something I like. Good flow. (*cough*nerdyeditortype*cough*)

Glad that Brit Lit was amazing!!

[annundriel.livejournal.com]

See, I like it because it starts out all dark and romantic and then BAM you've got this murder. And there are so many possibilities for who the two people are and what's going on plot wise before...I was having some fun original writing thoughts because of this poem. Probably part of why Brit Lit was good today. :)