The Hound of Heaven

Read the Poem "The Hound of Heaven" by Francis Thompson. Link http://www2.bc.edu/~anderso/sr/ft.html

In your opinion what is the essence of this poem? Explain it as best you can in no more then 3 sentences. If others have posted prior to you and you like or dislike what they said you can add an extra sentence or two (after you have put your own "authentic" interpretation in the post. Following this cite the three lines (together, or spread out) that you found to be most revealing in giving you this interpretation...or that still remain a puzzle to you (just pose this as a question on the blog).

Short Story Writers

The following Blog is an example of how a group might set up a blog. The four authors we will read are Andre Dubus, Flannery O'Connor, T.C. Boyle, and Raymond Carver. Each group (made up of 6 students)will ultimately read work from all of the authors; however, each group will be choosing to read, discuss, respond, and post on each of the writers and their selected stories one author at a time. I have posted a wikipidea link on each author as a basic intro. Further posts will give more detail on each of the authors, stories, themes that we will look for, as well as other directions.

Andre Dubus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_dubus








Flannery O'Connor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flannery_Oconnor








T.C. Boyle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.c._boyle







Raymond Carver http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_carver

Tim Gautreaux http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Gautreaux

Here is an interview of Gautreaux: http://www.identitytheory.com/interviews/birnbaum127.php

See this post on Gautreaux http://www.amywelborn.com/gautreaux/article.html