Sharon Olds’ poem, “Last Night” & Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy”

The Kind of Man I Am at the DMV by Stacey Waite

The Magic of Stories

The Magic of Stories

        I sometimes think this whole world and all of us are just fiction, and some of us are good storytellers. Everyone has their own stories; yet, some are more compelling than others. However, I have found that people tend to beautify and modify their experiences, or somewhat hide the

今年雨水真多 Feb, March, 2017

橋不見了

Response Paper on Raymond Carver's "Cathedral"

Here's a link to a pdf of Raymond Carver's "Cathedral."

http://www.giuliotortello.it/ebook/cathedral.pdf

2017 第一天

朋友寄這張給我

這下不會忘記今年是雞年了

祝福每個朋友都把握雞會

George Michael

25 June 1963 – 25 December 2016

Realism, Modernism, Existentialism, Magic Realism in Literature

貝加爾湖畔

芝加哥的妹妹傳來貝加爾湖畔

真是超好聽...

Analysis of Death Constant Beyond Love

Death Constant Beyond Love 是1982年諾貝爾文學獎得主,哥倫比亞作家Gabriel Garcia Marquez寫於1970的一個短篇.有興趣的朋友在網上可以找到中英文版本(原文是西班牙文).我看的是收錄在The Norton Anthology World Literature, 由Gregory Rabassa翻譯的,只有六頁.這篇文章不錯,是期中到期末我們唸過的22篇裡,極為少數我喜歡的.
Marquez的寫作風格被歸類為Magic Realism.故事的結尾,競選期間的紙鳥和中間紙蝴蝶那幾段像噩夢般似的纏著我(不知道Marquez想傳達什麼)整整一個禮拜才下筆寫這篇期末essay.放在這作為噩夢結束的紀念.現在只剩下期末考了...