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  1. Nov 2015
    1. Feed’st thy

      Here and elsewhere (like line 13's "Pity") the meter is not iambic. (An iambic foot of poetry is unstressed-STRESSED. "deSIRE") Be prepared to discuss the effects of these metrical variations.

    1. uncumberèd

      Note the accent mark. This word should be five-syllabled. UN-en-CUM-be-RED.

    1. For this poem, you really need to read between the lines. Stanza two's opening implies that an action has taken place between Stanza two's beginning and Stanza one's ending. What happened?

    1. Suk compares this to trying to teach “a medical student who is training to be a surgeon but who fears that he’ll become distressed if he sees or handles blood.”

      OOF!

    2. Once you find something hateful, it is easy to argue that exposure to the hateful thing could traumatize some other people.

      Easy to argue, but not easy to argue convincingly, right?

    3. emotional reasoning

      I guess Gardner's multiple intelligences, particularly intrapersonal intelligence, really took hold!

    4. The rate of emotional distress reported by students themselves is also high

      Some academic subjects might actually benefit distressed students. Reading a narrative about somebody with a similar struggle might give a student a coping mechanism, or at the very least, a sense of proportion of their own struggles.

    5. we make moral judgments is express allegiance to a team

      This allegiance could lead to great conversations. When people have a stake in a topic, they often are very well informed.

    6. mutual dislike used to be surprisingly mild

      Yes, I'm thinking of what Sunday morning talk shows used to be.

    7. call the Socratic method is a way of teaching that fosters critical thinking

      ...and Socrates fostered critical thinking for a social end. He feared the kinds of leaders that Glaucon et alia might become

    8. argely about emotional well-bein

      An important distinction between PC and these two movements. With special attention to microaggressions and trigger warnings, cui bono, and at what cost?

  2. Apr 2015
    1. specially women,

      So I'm not sure if this is a pathos-appeal, like Cross was talking about, or if it's a specific narrowing of her focus. The usual victims ("victims"?) of this kind of tribunal ("court"?) are women. Dang, what would Hayakawa say about how important classifying things is in this debate?!

    1. national debate and dinner table

      Perhaps this is what Cross calls "plain-folks appeal" (211). It's also worth noting that the speech was delivered from Crawford, Texas, with the open Texas landscape behind the President (rather than the White House).