I will always remember the Tennyson class on the Lady of Shallot with Gregorian chant coming through the walls (theology building...) or the poor prof's embarrassment at discovering having taught their (excellent) "mortality in Tennyson" lecture without knowing that was the day Challenger exploded on launch.
Oh wow, that's pretty amazing.
The Hardy poem that seemed to induce depression in actually everyone in our seminar was "The Convergence of the Twain." We spent about half a class on that one. But apparently Hardy still gets sold as a RURAL NATURE POET, which is about as priceless as Housman being an Arcadian type. I keep picturing students thinking they're going to get fresh Woods and Pastures new, and getting smacked in the face instead with "Channel Firing" and God going LOL NOT JUDGEMENT DAY YET, ROLL OVER AND GO BACK TO SLEEP at the end.
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Date: 2016-01-14 03:28 am (UTC)Oh wow, that's pretty amazing.
The Hardy poem that seemed to induce depression in actually everyone in our seminar was "The Convergence of the Twain." We spent about half a class on that one. But apparently Hardy still gets sold as a RURAL NATURE POET, which is about as priceless as Housman being an Arcadian type. I keep picturing students thinking they're going to get fresh Woods and Pastures new, and getting smacked in the face instead with "Channel Firing" and God going LOL NOT JUDGEMENT DAY YET, ROLL OVER AND GO BACK TO SLEEP at the end.