Best Essay on Love Poetry/Satires

Date: Thu Jun 16 10:28 AM, 2005

Best Essay on Love Poetry/Satires

Date: Thu Jun 16 12:11 PM, 2005

I remember my first emoticon. Felt kind of dirty afterwards. Thought about going to confession, but I'm not Catholic and I figured if I didn't cross myself right the priest would nab me. What's worse, I was hooked. Started making my own emoticons the old fashioned way, straight off the keyboard. Here's my favorite: %~) I call it Smiley Face by Picasso.

OK, you academics, jump in here and redeem this discussion.

JSC

Date: Fri Jun 17 6:59 AM, 2005

Syd, Greg started it at the end of his posting, but now you've corrupted the discussion beyond redemption. From here it's liable all to be about emoticons rather than Greg's 16th-century course.

For my corrupting part, I think 16th-century portraits, especially miniatures, are the emoticons of their day.

--D

Date: Mon Jun 20 1:56 PM, 2005

What would a metaphysical emoticon look like, do you suppose?

Best,

Julie Guernsey-Shaw

Date: Mon Jun 20 6:41 PM, 2005

If Dennis is right in his definition, then a metaphysical emoticon would LOOK LIKE but not actually be a bracelet of bright hair about a bone--or maybe, to answer Dennis seriously, a golden ring suspended in time around a young woman's neck.

Date: Thu Aug 4 5:43 PM, 2005

Dennis Flynn wrote:

Syd, Greg started it at the end of his posting, but now you've corrupted the discussion beyond redemption. From here it's liable all to be about emoticons rather than Greg's 16th-century course.

--D

DANG, Dennis, you were right! = O

JSC

Date: Thu Aug 25 1:00 AM, 2005

I have found these works to be especially brilliant readings of Donne's satires and love poetry. I can write this publicly because I am an independent scholar who is NOT part of the John Donne Society. It is a mere coincidence that some of these scholars are closely associated with the society.

Guibbory, Achsah "'Oh, Let Mee Not Serve So': The Politics of Love in Donne's Elegies." ELH 56 (1990): 811-33

Hester, Thomas M. Kinde Pity and Brave Scorn: John Donne's Satyres. Durham: Duke University Press, 1982

Strier, Richard. "Radical Donne." ELH 60 (1993): 283-322

Date: Tue Mar 21 3:31 AM, 2006

you's are sad the poor guy want's your help and all you can talk about is emoticons. how would you like it if you poste a serious question and all but 1 reply is about emoticons!

Date: Mon Mar 5 5:05 PM, 2007

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