Author: mtravers

For this final project, I’d originally intended to write a poem from Jane Eyre’s perspective in the style of Carrion Comfort by Gerard Hopkins. I then switched gears to writing the poem from the POV of Jane Eyre to that of Antoinette, until I finally scrapped the Hopkins part and just wrote a poem about… Read more Matt writes fanfic I think

For this first project of ours, I picked two texts that we read this semester: Frankenstein and On Being Cautioned Against Walking on an Headland Overlooking the Sea, Because It Was Frequented by a Lunatic. I then smashed them together, attempting to blend stylistic elements and themes from them both in the same form factor… Read more On Being Alienated by a Lunatic for Simply Looking Like an Affront to God

The brain sometimes is not full of delight A garden which sometimes struggles for sunlight. Where some days the sun shines on shimmering streams, and on others the dark consumes innocent dreams. Where petals of beautiful flowers oft fall Where life always lives, even when odds are small. You see sometimes our lives can be… Read more Similizing the Brain to a Garden, but one in like Washington State or something – Matt Travers

For this project, I decided to attempt a modernized sonnet in the style of Sir Phillip Sydney. The first sonnet is my modernization of Astrophil & Stella 1. I essentially tried to line for line translate his misogyny into a modern context. I think a lot of dudes these days are just as pitiful as… Read more A Stab at Sonnets

by Matt Travers For this project I decided to rewrite Lanval as if Lanval was a Gen Z teen. Rather than being an unappreciated member of King Arthurs court wishing for a fair maiden, Lanval is a crew member at a Burger King who just wants to be paid a living wage. You can either… Read more Lanval Redux