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Talk Write

Talk Write

By: Brandon Cook
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  • Sinclair Lewis's "Main Street:" Day 5

    Sinclair Lewis's "Main Street:" Day 5
    May 12 2025

    Her other schemes having failed, but not yet giving up hope, Carol, inspired by a good time out with friends and the magical landscape, decides to start a drama club. Lewis crystallizes her resolve in luscious winter descriptions.



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    18 mins
  • Sinclair Lewis: "Main Street:" Day 4

    Sinclair Lewis: "Main Street:" Day 4
    May 9 2025

    Lewis gives two views of the same setting, contrasting two very differnet personalities.



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    13 mins
  • Elinor Wylie's "Wild Peaches"

    Elinor Wylie's "Wild Peaches"
    May 8 2025

    First published in her 1921 collection “Nets to Catch the Wind,” Wylie’s sonnet cycle “Wild Peaches” dramatizes an elopement to an idyllic East: an event which has parallels in her own life. Notice her sumptuous nature descriptions and her final Puritanical twist in the fourth poem.



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    14 mins

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