A Decade in The Matrix

On March 31st, 1999, The Matrix was first projected upon the big screen. I will be drawing on The Matrix occasionally to illustrate points in class, so if you haven't yet seen it, feel free to justify a screening this week: you can call it "Homework." This is NOT required--merely suggested.

Reading Links for April 2

William Shakespeare's "That time of year thou mayst in me behold"
http://www.bartleby.com/70/50073.html



William Wordsworth's "Nuns Fret Not"
http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww309.html



Gwendolyn Brooks's "First Fight, Then Fiddle"

First fight. Then fiddle. Ply the slipping string
With feathery sorcery; muzzle the note
With hurting love; the music that they wrote
Bewitch, bewilder. Qualify to sing
Threadwise. Devise no salt, no hempen thing
For the dear instrument to bear. Devote
The bow to silk and honey. Be remote
A while from malice and from murdering.
But first to arms, to armor. Carry hate
In front of you and harmony behind.
Be deaf to music and to beauty blind.
Win war. Rise bloddy, maybe not too late
For having first to civilize a space
Wherein to play your violin with grace.

Welcome to Lit-Blogging

Again, welcome to the course and to lit-blogging. If you encounter challenges while getting started, please email me or bring your questions to class so we can all get our blogs up and active.

Due this Thursday, April 2nd:

*Start your blog at blogger.com--give it any title you like: it need not necessarily have reference to literature.
*Do your first post--write 250-350 words on why you gave your blog that title and what it means to you.
*Email me your blog url--the web address, not the title.
*Read the poems and take note of at least one interesting thing about each.