25 May 2020 | D-7 of my 5 pages critical essay submission for World Literature. I had done my research and compiled all the paper related to the topic I have chosen. Now I only need to start writing them ehe. I am expecting 3-4 days for me to finish writing, and the remaining days would be used to reread them.

2/100 days of ( nonconsecutive ) productivity 

Contained these gems:

“I have neither sympathy with the repugnance alluded to...” (that is, thoughtless composition)

In composing The Raven he claims to have composed “a poem that should suit at once the popular and the critical taste.”

Poe freely pours dirt on Paradise Lost (which I am coincidentally also reading at the moment!), calling it “essentially prose ... the whole being deprived ... of the vastly important artistic element, totality, or unity, of effect.” 

This gem: “Yet, for centuries, no man, in verse, has ever done, or ever seemed to think of doing, an original thing”. Yup. He obliterated centuries of Western poetic tradition in one sentence!

“...the death, then, of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetic topic in the world”. A darker note of misogyny. Here is an awesome video by Ron Lit (best booktuber ever!) with more on Poe, detective fiction, and women! 

I have lots so i’ll try to narrow it down!

studylit 

culturalbee 

hannahreveur 

studyforwhatmatters 

studylikeadoctor 

universityandme