Author: Kit Schleifer
Dickinson and SWU
Almost everyone who has read Emily Dickinson’s work probably knows that she did not care to go out very often. I agree whole-heartedly with that mentality. The problem is that […]
Eat Your Bret Harte Out
We read a lot of different stories and most of them are short stories that seem to have an end where everyone just has to feel empty inside. Here’s a […]
Rappaccini is Catholic
It took me a good two pages before I learned that Rappaccini is a symbol for the Catholic Priest. “His figure soon emerged into view, and showed itself to be […]
Walt Whitman Probably Wasn’t Gay: A Title Unrelated to the Blog
We’re like 48 months into this semester and I do not have the mental capacity to continue writing 600 words every week. I almost completely forgot how to spell continue. […]
Poelloons
Kit Schleifer Dear Poe, you wanted to write about one thousand years in the future and balloons were the best you could do. I’m incredibly disappointed. Also, the only balloon […]
Uncle Rick’s Warehouse
Kit Schleifer Will Kaufman wrote that Uncle Tom’s Cabin “helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War.” In the limited time I gave myself to finish this blog, I spent […]
One for All!
Kit Schleifer Why would none of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales make it into the American Canon? Recently, in class, we discussed reasons for this, and among those was that […]
Bryant Abroad
Kit Schleifer Among the readings for William Cullen Bryant we find Letter X. In it, he goes into much detail about his travels from Richmond to Charleston. The more I […]
The Crisis of Independently Writing a Blog Post
KIT SCHLEIFER THESE are the times that try men’s souls: the blog posts and blog replies, in this semester, become ever more incoherent, but they that read this […]
To Be A Master
Poor Richard says, “The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.” Up until an hour before the deadline I was a master, but a master […]
Captive Writer
I can flip through the Bible at any moment of my day and pretend like a random passage has meaning to me at that very moment. It takes absolutely no […]