Welcome to the Learning English Through Literature Blog!

This is a space for you to exchange ideas, opinions and feelings about the books we are looking at and the ones you have chosen to present, perhaps even recommend some new ones.

As we only have bi-weekly classes this is an ideal place to meet and to relate your reading experiences between classes. Hopefully the posts here will also add to the richness of the discussions in class and provide a jumping off point for areas of discussion we might otherwise have overlooked.

Basically, the more you post, the more useful the blog.

So get writing!

Oliver

Thursday, 18 March 2010

Franny and Zooey

Hi all!

After read the first part of Franny and Zooey, I post this first observation: "who is a good poet?" It made me think about what people expect about poets, what kind of poet reminds in our minds and why.

Franny said: "If you're a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean you're supposed to leave something beautiful after you get off the page and everything. The ones you're talking about don't leave a single, solitary thing beautiful. All that maybe the slightly better ones do is sort of get inside your head an leave something there, but just because they do, just because they know how to leave something, it doesn't have to be a poem, for haven's sake. It may just be some kind of terribly fascinating, syntaxy droppings".

All the best for everyone!

Esther.
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  1. Oliver26 March 2010 at 05:11

    Thanks, Esther, for being the first to post again! And what a great quote you have chosen - this really conveys a big theme in the book, and we shall be looking at this very quote in more detail in the class. Well done.

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