Mackenzie Greeley's AP Lit Comp Blog

I read my colleagues  work when I am unsure about the curriculum we are covering at a given point in time or that I see a point of confusion on the group page that I am able to clarify. Knowing that I can be checked on at any given time I start to really think about the diction I use in order to be as precise and to the point as possible without 'fluff'. If the course blog disappeared tomorrow I believe that it would be like walking into the class for the first time and we would have to re-educate ourselves without the technology. Having our class revolve around something other than the blog is more like a nightmare... If I couldn't publish my work this way, I don't think that this would be a tragedy  however, it would be a hassle to turn in work and wait for Dr. Preston's evaluation of our ideas. I can get a peer-evaluation with little trouble that is just as helpful if not more so. Learning in the classroom in more like an internet cafe, we enjoy the flow of ...

I only looked at two major poets of the English Augustan movement: John Dryden and Alexander Pope. From the readings of "Epitaph on Sir Isaac Newton", "The Rape of the Lock", and "Marriage a-la-mode" were the poems I focused on; however the Princeton Review also suggests "Mac Flecknoe", "Absalom and Achitophel", and "Windsor Forest" for more examples of the movement. I saw things that we have discussed in class like couplets, rhyme, and satire in iambic pentameter based on the sonnet lectures we have had in class. The difference was in these poems were based on 'human frailty', something that we have yet to really discuss in class. While our talks have covered the play No Exit, this talked more about the perceptions we have and the environment we create versus what happens after death (although they did go to hell). In the "The Rape of the Lock" the poet wrote about cutting off a noble maiden's hair, I sa...