Author Archives: kaburrel

Final Project: Mother of the Waste

Posted on April 23, 2014 by kaburrel

For my final project I did an imitation of The Waste Land. I incorporated elements from T.S. Eliot, Louis Zukofsky, William Carlos Williams, and John Beer. From Zukofsky and Eliot I took formalities including allusions, footnotes, foreign languages, etc. However, similar … Continue reading →

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Mullen Imitation

Posted on April 3, 2014 by kaburrel

I thought Harryette Mullen’s Trimmings was fascinating this week. She’s very punny and intelligent and I like the way she chose to use material items as a route to express larger social issues or concepts. I would imagine even one of … Continue reading →

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Landscape with the Fall of Icarus: A Tale of Two Artists

Posted on March 27, 2014 by kaburrel

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by Pieter Brueghel is a painting that portrays the Greek mythological character Icarus during his last moments after flying too close to the sun and having his wax wings melt, consequently causing him to … Continue reading →

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Revised Final Projecto

Posted on February 28, 2014 by kaburrel

For my final project I have decided to do a modern day imitation poem of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land. I’ve wanted to do this since the beginning, but I was worried it wouldn’t constitute the equivalent of a ten-page … Continue reading →

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One must be so careful these days

Posted on February 20, 2014 by kaburrel

This critical post may come out being more like a chronos, but I found this gem of information and couldn’t pass it up. “The Trials of Astrology in T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land: A Gloss on Lines 57-59″ by Brian Diemert (On … Continue reading →

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Claude Mckay Kind of Snow Day

Posted on February 14, 2014 by kaburrel

Claude McKay’s usage of the sonnet is really very witty. The sonnet has always been used to convey a deep, if not exaggerated, sense of some emotion. Those 16th century sonnets we commonly think about always express some sort of … Continue reading →

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Why Do You Feel Differently: Comparisons and the Whole

Posted on February 13, 2014 by kaburrel

Why Do You Feel Differently. Why do you feel differently about a very little snail and a big one. / Why do you feel differently about a medium sized turkey and a very large one. / Why do you feel … Continue reading →

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Risqué in the Négligée

Posted on February 6, 2014 by kaburrel

The Young Housewife At ten AM the young housewife moves about in negligee behind the wooden walls of her husband’s house. I pass solitary in my car. Then again she comes to the curb to call the ice-man, fish-man, and … Continue reading →

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A Body, That Is A Vain Vessel

Posted on January 30, 2014 by kaburrel

I really liked Gertrude Stein’s use of defamiliarisation and how she equated her way of thinking with Picasso. I think after reading this I got a better grasp of Stein’s meaning in “A Carafe, That Is A Blind Glass” and found … Continue reading →

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Perfect Prufrock Timing

Posted on January 23, 2014 by kaburrel

“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (originally subtitled Prufrock among the Women) by T.S. Eliot was published June 1915 in the literary magazine Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. Ajan Syrian, Bliss Carman and Skipwith Cannell are a few of … Continue reading →

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