{"id":113,"date":"2017-02-13T22:35:14","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T03:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/?p=113"},"modified":"2017-02-13T22:37:13","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T03:37:13","slug":"reraisa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/epic-romance\/reraisa\/","title":{"rendered":"Re:Raisa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am too finding this to be a difficult reading. On a literary level, the density of the text renders me pretty incapable of enjoying Spenser&#8217;s usage of the English language. Spenser is clearly a master of the\u00a0poetic form, but I&#8217;m finding it difficult to dig at all into these pleasantries. Having said this, part of my difficulties stem from my inexperience in reading epic poems from this time period. Indeed, I often need to spend a great deal of time to figure out what is going on in the plot of our average class sonnet &#8211; with poetry of this length and of this density,\u00a0establishing and maintaining the narrative arc of the story is, for me, a success in and of itself. <strong>Tl;dr\u00a0<\/strong>I&#8217;m finding\u00a0<em>The Faerie Queene\u00a0<\/em>hard to read as an English student because I&#8217;m having a hard enough time trying to maintain an understanding of the plot. I feel like any literary analysis I attempt to offer on this epic is bound to fall short. I wish I could offer you some help, but I&#8217;m struggling to find an entry point myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am too finding this to be a difficult reading. On a literary level, the density of the text renders me pretty incapable of enjoying Spenser&#8217;s usage of the English language. Spenser is clearly a master of the\u00a0poetic form, but I&#8217;m finding it difficult to dig at all into these pleasantries. Having said this, part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":406,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-epic-romance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/406"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}