Reviewed from Part I Lady Bullfighter In my wrap-up class of The Sun Also Rises , I asked my students if they thought that the book was either a tragedy or
Month: April 2016
Tragicomedy: From King Lear to Hemingway – Part I
In my wrap-up class of The Sun Also Rises , I asked students if they thought the book was a tragedy or a comedy. One argued that it wasn’t a tragedy
A Shooting Star and a Pastoral Poem
Nancy Kunneman, a writer from my Lifelong Learning Institute of Chesterfield’s Poetry Workshop was inspired by an article in the Richmond Times-Dispatch article on Lauren Fagone, a dancer from the
Poetry on an Rx Pad
During our last several poetry workshops at LLIChesterfield.org, the participants discussed some writing prompts I offered to help inspire their poetic expressions. I presented ” The Red Wheelbarrow” by William Carlos
Poetry Workshop for Seniors: “Penny Nostalgia”
Lydia Aiken-Wilson, who has had an article about her life and some previous poems published on Litchatte has been writing poetry for many years and can find inspirations in people,
“How To Be a Poet,” According to Wendell Berry
Poet, novelist, and environmentalist Wendell Berry was born in 1934. He lives on a farm in Port Royal, Kentucky near his birthplace, He is the author of over 40 books
Blurred-Lines of Sexual Identity in Hemingway’s, The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway questions many of the deeply entrenched Pre-World War I concepts of masculine and feminine sexual identity in his novel, The Sun Also Rises. His masculine code dictates that