Hail, Muse!
Scary Muse??
As with all good epics, this blog begins in medias res. Over time, I hope this site will become a repository for all kinds of Literature and Language Department information.
I also hope that the site functions as our English Majors’ community home. Since Metro isn’t a residential university and most of us juggle work, school, children, and parents, it’s hard to build that sense of community in reading clubs or other extra-curricular activities with your fellow English Majors on campus.
So please stop by often. Envision ways you could use this site to connect with others and send me your suggestions, questions, and ideas.
And, if you think the blog’s title, “To Strive, To Seek, To Find,” from Tennyson’s “Ulysses” is a wee bit corny, just be thankful I didn’t go with any of these other shortlisted possibilities:
- “The Whole Bloodthirsty Race” from Keats’ “Eve of St. Agnes”
- “No Birds Sing” from Keats’ “La Belle Dame”
- “Clouds of Nameless Trouble” from Tennyson’s “In Memorium”
- “What Rough Beast?” from Yeat’s “Second Coming”
- “This Stony Rubbish” from Eliot’s “Waste Land”
- “You Must Learn to Suffer Better Than That” from Beckett’s Endgame
This is probably a modernizes version of a “Green Man,” I’d guess, as a medievalist who’s seen a few!