Dr. Fielding's Course

Enter the Modernist Waste Land

Playing since: March 2, 2016

Death in poetry

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A lot of this poetry has death in it? Rather morbid reading wouldn’t you agree? We start out with soldier dying on the field. It’s rather saddening to visualize how so many men fought the war with all they had within them and in the end so many have lost their lives because of it…. View More

Perhaps you are correct Celia…

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Dearest Celia, you have spoken much truth to this Feminist logic. It is very much how Dorothea likes to act. Women should support their husbands, much like you have stated; women should not become involved in their husband’s work. We are supposed to take care of our women. If women were to become more like… View More

Heart of Darkness

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This man Marlow and the Mr. Kurt have certainly found themselves in a mess indeed Mr. Trumble. Quite Frankly, I believe that Marlow has found himself in a world of trouble. The adventure he’s take sure is grand though and his descriptions are unbelievable. I myself understand the troubles of traveling. Yet, this man had… View More

Death in the Poems

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In the Siegfried Sassoon poems it is incredible to read of so much death. It is not common for me to know of so much death let alone would I be able to write about it. This man who created these literary pieces must have much personal experience in death. The first piece “They” was… View More

Mina Loy

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What is this “Feminist Manifesto” that this fine creature Mina Loy speaks of?  Women must “realise thy selves”? Why must this be so? This Mina Loy creature is turning into a woman that will make other women ask too many questions…women are not supposed to ask so many questions…women have roles…women have rules…women are supposed… View More

Heart of Darkness (Part II & III)

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How, how horrific! Or should I say, “The horror!”. What a ghastly place this Marlow has seen and experienced! What would make a man stay in this dark Congo?! I would have been long gone before half of his story was spoken! What courage and…insanity! Marlow was clearly too infatuated with Kurtz to ever turn… View More

Good evening Mr. Trumbull

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Hello again, good sir. So sorry to hear about your recent illness, but I am very glad indeed to hear of your fast recovery. I do hope you have nothing but good health the rest of year! If you do come to be under the weather again soon, I do know a very healing broth… View More

My dear fellow

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My dear fellow I must say more rest in a much drier climate would most certainly do you well.  However, in regards to your first query allow me to introduce myself. I am Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doctor, soldier, spiritualist, and above all master storyteller. It is a pleasure to make your acquaintance sir. I… View More

Well, sir…

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It’s a pleasure to make your acquaintance. Do the auctioneers speak in verse where you came from? At least you must be more accustomed to this wretched motion of the sea than are us Middlemarch landlubbers.

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