American Literature 201September 27

Michael SimpsonSection 051

The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary picture is repeated without end. It is the highest emblem in the cipher of the world. St. Augustine described the nature of God as a circle whose centre was everywhere and its circumference nowhere.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Close Reading Review

Experience of direct readingThe picture – physical detailThe ideas – key wordsAnalogy – use of metaphor and simile

Remembering what you have read

Talking about what you have read

Harriet Jacobs Topics

Based on topics sheet

Last QuestionsRemember for September 29

1st Draft of Research Summary Paper Read Frederick Douglass “Narrative (1 thru VII)”

It is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson *

* Sante, Luc. “The Fiction of Memory” The New York Times. March 14, 2010.