About me - Gena Messersmith
Other than my family, my love is reading and literature. I can't imagine a day going by without reading part of a novel. I have a B.A. and M.A. in English Literature with primary focus on British Romantic and British Victorian Lit.
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RSS Feed- Arts & Humanities > Poets & Poetry Poetry analysis: Sonnets are Full of Love, by Christina Rossetti
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The Poetess Talks Back In Monna Innominata, Christina Rossetti creates a truly original and unique voice. She turns the tables on Dante and Petrarch and has her female not be the mere object of a man's affection, but the woman as speaker expressing her desire and frustration to her male lover. Rossetti takes the male traditi... More..
- Education > Teachers & Administrators Are teachers treated as professionals?
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In my personal experience the answer has been "no." All teachers have, at the minimum, a Bachelors Degree, while many have advanced degrees to include but not limited to Masters Degrees in Education, English, History, Chemistry, etc.. Others have obtained either their Ed.d., or a Ph.D. in their discipline. With this amount o... More..
- Arts & Humanities > Poets & Poetry Poetry analysis: Kubla Khan, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The Ultimate Dream: Kubla Khan "Kubla Khan" is perhaps Samuel Taylor Coleridge's most well known and loved poem. The poem is expressed through natural imagery in which he describes for the reader another world. He describes this world in a vivid and masterful manner which brings the world to life. Coleridge stated he wrote t... More..
- Arts & Humanities > American Authors Author evaluations: Kate Chopin: A positive influence for feminists?
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Kate Chopin was born Katherine O'Flaherty on February 8, 1850 of an Irish and French descent in St. Louis, Missouri. Kate was blessed by having many female mentors throughout her childhood. There were many strong and independent widows in her family and she was further influenced by the intellectual nuns of her school who ta... More..
- Arts & Humanities > Poets & Poetry Poetry explication: Because I could not stop for death, by Emily Dickinson
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This is probably her best known and most often discussed poem. This poem has been interpreted many ways but my favorite is the retelling of the Greek Myth of Persephone. Dickinson tells it in first person by Persephone. Persephone was the daughter of Zeus and Demeter (the earth goddess)and she became the queen of the underwo... More..
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