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Close Literary Reading 101: Thinking about How Stories End

I thought it might be fun (at least for me) to lay out, in a series of short blog posts, some of the basic terms and ideas that I present to my students when talking about the “close reading” of literary texts. … Continue reading

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Ezra Pound’s Poem, “The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter”

Ezra Pound wrote this poem in 1915 (which he described as “after Rihaku”): While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead I played about the front gate, pulling flowers. You came by on bamboo stilts, playing horse, You … Continue reading

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