Author Archives: emilyjamlit

Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” was a hefty read this week. It seemed to go on forever. Several things stuck out at me during my reading of it, and after we discussed it in class. The first thing I thought … Continue reading →

The readings this week, with the exception of Whitman’s The Wound-Dresser, were all from people who were clearly on one side or the other of the Civil War. Reading them helped me to understand people’s view from both sides, but … Continue reading →

This week’s reading was interesting, and I mainly focused on Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener”. This short story was easy to read but after reading it I realized I didn’t get it. Bartleby just stops doing any work but continues to … Continue reading →

My most favorite reading this week was definitely Emerson’s Self-Reliance. Straight from the start I found myself thinking more and more about what he was writing about. Specifically, a passage on page 684 that reads: “A man should learn to … Continue reading →

During this week’s reading, the story that struck me the most was The Dance by Augustus Baldwin Longstreet. I didn’t understand it until I’d read it about three times. I still don’t really understand it, although I draw more from … Continue reading →

This week’s reading focused partly on captivity narratives, mainly that of Mary Rowlandson. Mary Rowlandson, wife of a minister named Joseph Rowlandson, was captured by Indians and held captive for three months before being ransomed back to her family. What … Continue reading →

As I read this week’s readings, what really stuck out at me was from William Bradford’s account Of Plimoth Plantation. Bradford talks about the sufferings of his people in England and their trip to the New World. He mentions the … Continue reading →

During the reading this week I was far more interested the second part that focused on the importance and growth of literature in the 1600s. This is a subject I’ve never really learned about. I’ve read several publications from the … Continue reading →

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