Author Archives: Cecelia Jones

The Gates of Hell Version of “He Busts Down My Door Again” is different from the other Young-Hae Chang movies we have seen. The background has the look of a museum with high ceilings and and shiny floors.  The music … Continue reading →

Watching “Dakota,” in The New and Improved Young-Haw Chang Heavy Industries, was a completely strange and random for me.  I did not know what to expect when I clicked the link and was abruptly awakened after the first drum beat … Continue reading →

My hesitations to blog about Lot 49 are forced to subside.  My apprehension of writing about this novel is in part due to my confusion.  Professor Croxall, you have stressed the ideas of ‘What?’ and ‘How?’ since the first day … Continue reading →

The Death of the Author presents some interesting ideas.  The general meaning of the essay can almost be summed up in the last sentence of the essay that reads, “…the birth of the reader must be at the cost of … Continue reading →

Repetition seems to be an apparent tool in Natasha Trethewey’s poem entitled “Myth.”  The first three stanzas before the asterisk break are riveting.  She opens with the lines, “I was asleep while you were dying./ It’s as if you slipped through some rift, … Continue reading →

Emily Dickinson’s poem “After great pain, a formal feeling comes–,”  is plain and accurate.  She accurately describes the unique feelings a person has after he or she experiences a traumatic loss or event of some kind. In the first stanza, … Continue reading →

Passing, written by Nella Larsen, is a interesting read so far.  After reading the first few pages, I was not sure what made this work of literature any different than that of other works of literature.  I simply read about … Continue reading →

T.S. Eliot’s essay titled “Tradition and The Individual Talent” brings up the idea of tradition and its impact, importance, and even simply its presence in literature and on authors.  The essay was intriguing and enlightening. Toward the beginning of the … Continue reading →

“I heard a Fly buzz–when I died–” The first line simply states that the speaker heard a fly buzzing when she was about to die.  That struck me as odd.  In my opinion, birth and death are the two most … Continue reading →

How to Read Literature was interesting, relevant, and made complete sense.  After spending my entire evening reading and analyzing poems and other works of literature that simply baffled and confused me, quality time with a “How to” guide that was … Continue reading →