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7516289 No.7516289 [Reply] [Original]

>Not having read the required book
>Having read it like an idiot
>Looking in it for symbols; example: "The author uses he striking image green leaves because green is the symbol of happiness and frustration."
I am also in the habit of lowering a student's mark catastrophically if he uses "simple" and "sincere" in a commendatory sense.

>> No.7516311

>>7516289
fuck off

>> No.7516419

>>7516311
>Not having read the required book

>> No.7516445

>>7516289
BE A SIMPLE KIND OF MAN

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>- see it and condemn the fashionable device of entitling a collection of essays or a volume of poetry — or a long poem, alas — with a phrase lifted from a more or less celebrated poetical work of the past. Such titles possess a specious glamour acceptable maybe in the names of vintage wines and plump courtesans but only degrading in regard to the talent that substitutes the easy allusiveness of literacy for original fancy and shifts onto a bust's shoulders the responsibility for ornateness since anybody can flip through a Midsummer Night's Dream or Romeo and Juliet, or, perhaps, the Sonnets and take his pick.

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>This is widespread, and when I hear a critic speaking of an author’s sincerity I know that either the critic or the author is a fool.

>> No.7518316

>>7516289
>didn't read any of the assigned reading for an entire year of literature classes
>don't read summaries, just listen very closely to the teacher describe what we were supposed to have read
>make it my goal to be the most talkative member of every class
>get 100 in participation every time
>every paper: "A-, try to back up your solid claims with more textual evidence"