Simon Brilsby“Yesterday” and Virtue EthicsYesterday is not a film I have seen. Yesterday is not a film I intend to see. To me, Yesterday is a somewhat interesting Wikipedia…Sep 1, 20191Sep 1, 20191
Simon BrilsbyLanguage as a Martial ArtI’d been learning Japanese for four years when I realised I was terrible. Reading and writing I could do fairly well, but conversations…Jul 26, 2019Jul 26, 2019
Simon BrilsbyBetween Sad Rememberance and Happy Forgetting: An Analysis of Christina Rossetti’s “Remember”The poem in full.Dec 29, 2018Dec 29, 2018
Simon Brilsby“Lodg’d in me Useless”: An Analysis of John Milton’s “On His Blindness”Many poems have the unfortunate virtue of beautifying a platitude. It does not matter that the rest of the poem does its best to undermine…Nov 16, 2018Nov 16, 2018
Simon Brilsby“How Long You Dilly-Dallied Before Reaching Maturity”: Looking at Franz Kafka’s “The Judgement”…Georg Bendemann, the protagonist of Kafka’s “The Judgement”, thinks he’s a grown up. He runs the family firm, he is engaged to a woman with…Sep 4, 2018Sep 4, 2018
Simon BrilsbyFrom Many, One: Love in Emily Dickinson’s Poem “Love LII”Love lasts longer than any relationship because true love changes the lover. When two persons, even for a moment, let their selves dissolve…Aug 12, 2018Aug 12, 2018
Simon BrilsbyWhen Conscience Slept: An Analysis of ‘Purple Noon/Plein Soleil’ (1960 Film)Spoiler Warning: This will reveal the entire plot of the film, and by extension the plot of the source material, The Talented Mr RipleyJul 11, 2018Jul 11, 2018
Simon BrilsbyA Victim of Short-Lived Ambition: A Review of “The Knight of the Swords: The First Book of Corum”…I will not be judging The Knight of the Swords as an adventure story. ‘But why?’ you ask. ‘It’s a cheap fantasy paperback. What did you…Jul 10, 2018Jul 10, 2018
Simon BrilsbyThe Cracked Face of Memory: Looking at Vladimir Nabokov’s Short-Story “The Return of Chorb”Unreliable narrators usually mislead us about facts, but Nabokov’s protagonist in “The Return of Chorb” misleads us about feelings. In some…Apr 22, 2018Apr 22, 2018
Simon BrilsbyThe Eyes of a Poet: Examining John Keats’ “Ode to Psyche”‘What’s the point of poetry?’ moan most schoolchildren, and the adults they stagnate into. What’s the point of these columns of words…Mar 4, 2018Mar 4, 2018