Tennyson Lives....

Well, a phrase from his poetry, "The Charge of the Light Brigade" specifically, is used in the headline of an article online in the Toronto Globe and Mail:

Into the Valley of Death
Anger at vote-rigging has worked to rip a thin scab off many years of frustration at poverty, corruption and inequitable land ownership
STEPHANIE NOLEN
From Saturday's Globe and Mail
January 26, 2008 at 12:28 AM EST
KIPKELION, KENYA — With the sun barely over the edge of the valley, the colours on the hills were muffled. The banana leaves were dull green, the sugar cane stalks pale yellow. And so the flames, when we saw them flare in first one house, then a second, then streets and streets on fire, were shocking, vivid orange, more alive than anything around.

Browning, Barrett, & Love

From "Today in Literature" a brief story on "Browning, Barrett, Love":

On this day in 1845 Robert Browning wrote his first letter to Elizabeth Barrett, so inciting one of the most legendary of literary love stories. The letter belongs to the 'fan mail' category -- the praise of a thirty-two-year-old up-and-comer for one just six years older and already internationally famous -- but it was more than just poet-to-poet. After commending "the fresh strange music, the affluent language, the exquisite pathos and true new brave thought," Browning confides that he is addressing "your own self," and that "for the first time, my feeling rises altogether."

Community Forum on Olympics

"Olympics, SFU and You: Is there a connection?" is the titled of an SFU community forum this coming Wednesday, February 4th, from 2:30-4:30 in MBC2290.

One of the panelists is English grad student and oftimes TA Myka Tucker-Abramson. The topic is a very vital one that will have great effect on you ta SFU: your class schedules, for one thing.

Click on the hotlink above, or this post's title, for the information flyer.

Dummy Final Exam Questions

Here are two dummy Final Exam questions with answer (first question) or guidance (second question).

Leave any comments that you may have here, in this post.

E.g.

C.W. "I love it -- this is so wonderful!"

Vancouver Sun "Victorian" Article

The article from the January 15th Vancouver Sun which I was kindly handed last lecture, titled "We squander the great legacy of the Victorians at our peril" is available online here at its original organ of publication, Britain's Daily Telegraph.

"We still live in a society that was in large part made by the Victorians. We may affect to despise them, ridicule them, even condemn them. We certainly misunderstand them. Part of this misunderstanding is that we mistake their confidence for arrogance; for we misunderstand the paradoxical nature of that confidence....

We imagine the Victorians as stuffy and orthodox; yet they were the most questioning, most radical and most open-minded generation in our history. Perhaps it is our own arrogance....that prevents our seeing this."