Not accepted.
#TACO is "just joking".
Meanwhile, thousands of people's lives are being uprooted.
#Pulter is "just joking". Meanwhile, he killed hundreds of thousands Ukrainians.
Epstein was "just joking". Meanwhile, studies show that 1:5 girls have been sexually abused.
No jokes allowed in pain.
Is #Pulter delusional or what with this comment. "With Ukraine, we act in a surgical, careful way, you understand, right? It is not war in the full, modern sense of the word.". SMO meat grinder. #losttheplot
What made me smile today: while discussing Hamlet, my students kept pointing out all the ways Hamlet sounds like Hester Pulter. My own tiny revolution! #Pulter #Shakespeare
At the end of Week 4, I asked my students to express how they’re feeling using one of Hester Pulter’s favorite words. There was “splendent” and “radiant,” but the clear winner was “dunghill.” 💩 #Pulter #earlymodern #womenwriters #17c
Your #Pulter poem of the day is “To Aurora [1].” To my students, it comments on the exploitation of women. The speaker sounds like a victim of trauma seeking help from an army of goddesses. And Pulter innovates by celebrating female nudity that has zero to do with male pleasure. #EarlyModern
As you can tell, I thought my course on Pulter — my current favorite 17th c poet — would be a good chance to introduce #Pulter as a hashtag and share some of her poems that I like to teach. #PulterForAll !
Hester Pulter wrote emblems without illustrations. I asked students to find or make images for “View But This Tulip.” Many prompted AI, to terrific results. We had skulls, Christian iconography, representations of alchemy, fire, big and small tulips. I recommend this assignment! #Pulter #earlymodern
Today’s Hester Pulter nugget: a lovely 25-min podcast from 2021 that models close reading and rich discussion. “Poetry for All” featuring Wendy Wall and Pulter’s Emblem 40: “View But This Tulip.” Alchemy, resurrection, formal innovation — and more! #Pulter #EarlyModern
Today my Pulter class dug into “Why Must I Thus Forever Be Confined.” The students considered that the speaker might be confined by war, illness, grief, etc. but decided that she is trapped in a society that doesn’t value writerly ambition in women. I like it. #Pulter #EarlyModern
