Yeats: The Second Coming

“The blood-dimmed tide loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.” Yeats, lines 5-8 As suggested by our class Prezi, Yeats has been considered in recent scholarship as a defining voice of the postcolonial years. The poem The Second Coming holds many pointed […]

Stevenson: Jekyll and Hyde

“Will Hyde die upon the scaffold? or will he find courage to release himself at the last moment? God knows; I am careless; this is my true hour of death, and what is to follow concerns another than myself. Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I […]

Morris: The Defence of Guenevere

She stood, and seemed to think, and wrung her hair,Spoke out at last with no more trace of shame,With passionate twisting of her body there Around the time my first child was born I began reading a lot of female driven works, especially ones written by women. Marion Zimmer Bradley’s the Mists of Avalon was […]

Coleridge: The Other Side of a Mirror

The Other Side of a Mirror, Mary Elizabeth Coleridge I sat before my glass one day, And conjured up a vision bare, Unlike the aspects glad and gay, That erst were found reflected there- The vision of a woman, wild With more than womanly despair. Through mirrors we learn the ends that must be […]

What we are all about on this page

Welcome to the Great British Blog Page! I am Christyn Rey Brewer, Sociology and WGS undergrad at Wright State University. This blog will be a class required space, that as per usual I plan to make as user friendly as possible. I offer a place to pit your comments and ideas forth in respect, and […]