hi I'm Rhonin. This name indicates that I'm quite into the WOW,and YES I AM.I'm a freshman in college,I major in Automation,but I chose three courses on English,poetry,language history and presentation.I hope that you guys can give me some help on my courses,cuz I actually don't know that much about English literature (especially poetry) and stuff.
hi am new here.am from india.can anybody please help me with the metaphysical elements in John Donne's " A Valediction Forbidding Mourning" and " The Cannonisation", it's my assignment to be submitted in saturday.
I'm down at present for several reasons which I don't think proper to discuss here. One of them has to be the fact, however, that my creative output fails to draw the aesthetic attention of people. I do a bit of painting, I write poetry from time to time, I compose music that's experimental mostly. I am student of literature. I don't look bad. I have few friends. But the ones that I do have are genuine. For a long time I thought I was depressed but one day while watching a white feather dance in the sunlight, I discovered that I'm not. I don't smoke. I don't drink. I love the company of open-minded people. I love the smell of old books. I am phlegmatic. I love the country and wish someday I will have a farmhouse. I believe in God and I hope He believes in me (I hope I'm not committing some Christian sin of self-assertion here; only God and I know what I mean, and He tells me He's cool with it!)
I love life.
Hello all! I am a U.S. citizen educated in history and the law. I earn my living as a lobbyist but my true loves are those elements composing the Western classical tradition. Although I would never dare to compare myself to a thinker such as Machiavelli twenty years in the trenches of democracy have led me to empathize greatly with him regarding the refuge of classical antiquity.
"When evening comes, I return home and go to my study. On the threshold I strip naked, taking off my muddy, sweaty workday clothes, and put on the robes of court and palace, and in this graver dress I enter the courts of the ancients and am welcomed by them, and there I taste the food that alone is mine, and for which I was born. And there I make bold to speak to them and ask the motives of their actions, and they, in their humanity reply to me. And for the space of four hours I forget the world, remember no vexation, fear poverty no more, tremble no more at death; I pass indeed into their world." ---Letter to Francesco Vettori
For the last few years I have chosen to spend much of my "real world" time (meaning "after work") in the company of those individuals who, for the most part, ennoble humankind with their ideas and writings rather than those for whom everything is reducible to "eat what you kill". That is not to say that I don't appreciate, and often delve into, the dark side; simply that I find the darker aspects of humanity about as filling as a diet coke. Call me pollyanish but that's how I cope!
That being said, I look forward to meeting you all and making new friends.
A good day to you all
I kinda liked the idea of introducing myself in a forum, as the one flaw I see with the concept is the lack of personality.
Unfortunately, I am a man of few words and won't be able to ravish your minds with neither astonishing originality or flawless vocabulary as some of your fine members already might have done.
As a 89' model norwegian I have inherited both the negative and positive aspects that come with the egocentric norwegian culture, my mind is my own, fortunately.
I study psychology, history and pedagogy, and work part - time at a local bowling alley. I really like it there, my co - workers got this sedated group mentality which makes it hard to move at a quick pace, not saying that I am a laid back guy though, but I'd like to be.
I like to read, I really do.
The way some books create alternative routes, hidden paths, expressways, cozy highways, yeah, I'm tired of constant asfalt.
I won't bother to list authors because it won't tell you a thing, I will tell you though; I like books who make me feel good without concrete evidence, I like feeling confused, disoriented by questions who dig through the layers of my brain until a conclusion knocks me out.
One name hits me though, Haruki Murakami, I get lost in his works one after another without fully understanding why, they just eat me.
I don't really care if people read this or not, this is a type of venting after all, but if you do, and get this "my oh my, this guy just broke through to me" feeling I'll be expecting to hear from you.
Eirik evaluated, pleased to meet you
so happy to know
Helloooo! I am looking forward to broadening my horizons in these forums.
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Am proudly Nigerian...i love art...male...what else? I am poetic..hmmmm...just Google my name (akinbo a. a. cornerstone). That's all !
Greetings everyone! I'm sure you'll all have a brilliant time here and make lots of friends
"The magic gave me insight, and you gave me a heart, but for all the heart and insight in the world, I am still a cat."
Hi Everyone ,,,
I'm an English Literature student - undergraduate - I look forward to share my ideas with you and approach many important issues that may concern all literature lovers over this great forum.
hello everybody, it is nice to meet you onlineOriginally Posted by Pensive
Hello everybody, It's nice that we are getting so many new forum members who share with us their precious views. There should be a place to introduce yourself and say hi; and this is it.
Come on and tell us about yourself.What are your hobbies? What are your favourite books? And also share with us everything else you would like to tell us about yourself.
Have a nice time browing the wonderful world of books and book-worms!
hello to everyone!!! its nice to be one of the member of this site..,
well, i know that I will get more educational things that I can Apply to my studies
hope that everyone of you is Friendly..,
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"A Friend Loves @ all Times"
Ninay..,
Of COURSE we are!Welcome to you, and to all the other new members.
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty
~Albert Einstein
hi!
I'm Janhavee from India. I like to read as most people over here.
A huge huge welcome to you all!!! Very much looking forward to getting to know you better!
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."
howdy.... (means hello in the state of america where I reside -not texas)
50 ish yr old english major getting back into reading good literature again after a 30 ish year hiatus.
I am in the process of re-building my fiction library- most of the 15 or so boxes of books I had stored in my parents basement I recently discovered were water damaged.
I want to trim it down from its previous vast size and look forward to posting on these forums for input on suggestions which authors belong and who don't on my roughly 15' of shelf space.
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