#eng lit memes

[burningvelvet]

#my memes #literature memes #eng lit #english literature #lit memes #litposting #john keats #percy shelley #romantic poetry #romantic poets #lord byron #funny #memes #history memes #history #poetry memes #poetry #poets #writing #reading #classic lit #classic literature #british literature

[biopanik]

Fuck excel assignments, the only XL I care about is the size of my monster condoms for my ultra mega girlcock

#I'm a fucking literary major why do we need this shit #fuck eng lit fuck eng lit fuck eng lit #my posts #meme

[georgianadarcystanaccount]

You see my vision?

#haven't finished martin fierro yet but you see where i'm going? #why am i writing this in eng #i mean i'm guessing some non argies/spanish speakers have read martin fierro #you should btw #jean valjean #les mis #martín fierro #argie tag #classic literature #classic lit memes #gauchos

[athenasdumbchild]

Jay Gatsby at some point to himself: I started saying old sport just to be dramatic and obviously as a joke but now it's literally part of my personality.

#the great gatsby #jay gatsby #eng lit #eng lit memes #dark academia #light academia #chaotic academia

[nadjacore]

Mrs Ramsay: yes of course I’m ok...

Also Mrs Ramsay:

#to the lighthouse #literature memes #to the lighthouse memes #literature funny #english memes #eng lit memes #to the lighthouse funny

[yeetmeoffthisplanet]

"Fuck you, my child is completely fine"

ma'am your child is an English major

#english literature #dark acadamia aesthetic #dark academia #literary #literature #english major #eng lit #literature memes #literary memes #shakespeare memes #lit major #collegememes #college #studentproblems #seriously fml

[official-r-kun]

i swear doctor faustus is half “now that the gloomy shadow of the earth, longing for orion’s drizzly look, leaps from the antarctic world unto the sky and dims the welkin with her pitchy breath” and half “lol cuck”

#eng lit memes #theyre a thing bih #dr faustus drinking game every time there's a joke about horns #doctor faustus

[wolfsneedles]

“I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men." "Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.”

― Jane Austen, Persuasion.

#feminism #jane austen #books #novels #english #literary #eng lit #english lit memes #english quotes #english lit student #english literature #persuasion #women are amazing #quotes #writers #writers and poets #writing #misogyny #women are rational #women are not emotional #philosophy #gender #inequality #social norms #stereotypes #men #women #are the same #on the same level and pedestal #this quote is so beautiful

[reniadeb]

🌚 @reniadeb 🌝

#meme #memes #british memes #growing up british #just british things #british #uk comedy #greggs #greggs fans furious as it hikes price of popular menu item #gail's #funny #romeo and juliet #shakespeare memes #william shakespeare #shakespeare #shakespeeps #eng lit

[dykesformercutio]

third post using this meme format BUT I GOTTA STICK TO MY BRAND

#shakespeare #shakespeare shitpost #shakespeare memes #eng lit #literature #english lit memes #english literature #romeoandjuliet #tybalt capulet

[distinguishedootdwritingweasel]

Best Jane Austen novel, according to my brother:

#literature memes #jane austen #pride and prejudice #lizzie bennet #fitzwilliam darcy #english literature #victorian #i think #eng lit #literature #elizabeth bennet

[phireads-archive]

I’ve been doing Macbeth homework for the last six hours now and I’m pretty near delirious so “ ‘Give me’, quoth I” is the funniest sentence I’ve ever read. Please send help.

#Macbeth #shakespeare #william shakespeare #Macbeth play #lady macbeth #the witches #the witches macbeth #Macbeth memes #eng lit #English lit #English gcse #gcse #gcse eng #gcse english #english literature #english lit gcse #student #school #english

[green-tea-crow]

We all know this meme right

Well please let me expand to my country of origin

Eng literature: ill die for honour

French lit: ill die for love

American lit: ill die for freedom

Russian lit: ill die

Czech literature: oh look a bug!

#im an idiot please dont take this too seriously #meme #da #dark academia #memes #text post #literature

[slaygentford]

hi ms emily i was wondering if you had any tips for Critical Litchrature Reading? i did an eng lit a-level a million (5) years ago so i Did know how to read critically but then i did a history degree where i had to read so much boring shit a week that when i have read for pleasure now it’s been stuff that smooths my brain over. which i know isnt always a bad thing! but i’d like to get back into big brain takes i just dont know how? like i tried reading mrs dalloway and i struggled bc subtle writing now makes my brain melt. sorry if youve answered this already and DOUBLY sorry if the answer is literally just ‘practice and experience’

oh this problem is so easily solved!! you’re starting with mrs dalloway, and mrs dalloway is a BIG one to jump right into, that's like trying to decipher Einstein after taking algebra. I'd recommend starting with some poetry, and of course now that I'm trying to think of some every syllabus I've ever written just flew directly out of my head. um. glass essay by Anne Carson. that icebox poem that’s a meme now is like the great Gatsby of poetry, it’s practically created for people learning to read literature. no joke, Richard siken? worth a revisit also. THIS ARTICLE will get your brain juice moving as well. 

short stories, try drown, by junot Díaz (sorry, I know, but it’s really good at teaching you how to read). Dubliners, Joyce, specifically the dead, is very good for starting to re-learn. ahhh shit I just thought of one and forgot it. fucking...brownies, zz packer. 

for novels, try Jane eyre, wuthering heights, those are less opaque. beloved, 100 years of solitude, slaughterhouse five. WAIT, do slaughterhouse five first. I firmly believe that if you can properly read slaughterhouse five you can read anything. it’s extremely simple and extremely not and very moving and I think maybe the best but least perfect book ever written but that is just me. 

THEN go into like, you know, modernism (Woolf, Joyce’s novels, stein), all that. to me modernism is the last hurdle in Getting Literature and the tallest one, or maybe that’s just how my brain works. but you gotta work up to it. 

other approaches include: you can pick stuff that sounds interesting and then look up book club and reading questions for them, which is the most accessible way to do this by far. you can get one of those big anthologies of short stories that come with introductory essays in them, which is how we’re taught to close read, and that could set you on the right path. you could supplement this as you keep reading, if you really want to, with like actual real theory (this is what I was taught from in my theory 101 class).

remember that what you need MOST out of this is a fellow player/interlocutor/improvisor, someone who’s read it too and says “yes and” to each of your ideas. the good news is the internet is huge and free and also I am here and also your brain is here. if you see something in a text and youre like, is that a symbol/motif/parallel/whatever, UHHH yeah the fuck it is cuz you just said so! so say “yes and” to yourself while reading, pull on every thread you find. 

[athenasdumbchild]

I was listening to no body no crime and I suddenly remembered the last Duchess by Robert Browning! And now I can't stop thinking about it.

#english literature #eng lit #english lit memes #no body no crime #taylor swift #taytay #swifties

[outsidelost]

1, 3 and 11 for the writing ask meme pls

1) Describe your worst piece of writing?

Woof. Worst or most embarrassing? If we’re talking academic, it was definitely my 10 page research paper on the Holy Wars where I, for the most part, was just being a douchey atheist 16-year-old. My eng. lit. teacher was definitely being nice when he gave me that C. 

In terms of creative writing, hoo boy. In 10th grade, I was feeling a lot of stuff, as any 14-15 year old might. I wrote this incredibly dark and nasty anthology about war and crime and just...things I shouldn’t have been writing at my age. I’ve read it a couple times since then and, frankly, it still embarrasses the hell out of me to this day, especially when I remember I turned it in to an English professor to read. They were disturbed, to say the least, because not only was it dark and inappropriate, it wasn’t even good. Certainly a learning experience for me when they returned it to me just full of red-pen annotations and corrections. 

3) What character type is hardest for you to write?

Uh, happy ones? Jokes aside, I’d say any static character. I’m a huge proponent of letting your character change over the course of a story, because that’s generally just how real people operate. I like realism in my characters and to write one that is stagnant doesn’t suit me or my creativity at all. Things happen to them and their attitudes, tastes and opinions change. Static characters have their place in a story but I would struggle deeply to write one as a main or even secondary, tertiary character. If they’re mean, they’ll stay mean and nothing will change. I would have a hard time keeping them static because my natural inclination is to develop them over time. 

11) How do you write minor characters?

I realize the fact that they’re minor characters precludes them having a huge impact on the narrative as a whole, but I suppose I usually write them in as plot devices. Which I think is the case with most people. They’re there to drive dialogue and influence the main character’s story in tandem with other minor characters. Behind the scenes, though, I do flesh them out as much as possible.

@assortedmutts - WRITING ASK MEME - accepting, tentatively

#assortedmutts #meme #hard meme is hard