Discussion 6 Assignment
This discussion post has four parts. For full credit, you must respond substantively to all four questions.
- Post at least one question/point in response to Lectures 6 and 7
- Of all the poems you have read in this assignment, what is your favorite and why?
- Post questions you would like to about any poems you have read in this assignment
- Discuss Wallace Stevens’s “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” using the exegetical schema
Lecture 6 : https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/b25d951a-5b7…
Lecture 7: https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/0fb0ad72-d95…
(The Discussion Assignment is due tomorrow at 11:59pm ET so start this immediately)
Peer responses
respond to each of the two students and use 150-200 words when responding. Start of by saying (Hello name)
Desirae
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- Post at least one question/point in response to Lectures 6 and 7
Why does Dr. Melander believe that Emily Dickenson is talking about
her poems being able to kill and outlive their master? It does make
sense that is what she could be referencing, however how does he get to
that conclusion? She may be talking about how easily it could be to make
such a significant kill that would it outlive her.
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- Of all the poems you have read in this assignment, what is your favorite and why?
The poem ‘A Young Housewife’ resonated with me the most because I
understood it. I wasn’t just a housewife; I was a stay-at-home mom.
However, I related to this poem making it my favorite. This poem spoke
about how this woman owned nothing but still put in the work every day
of keeping her house in order for her husband that made the money. She
did so much for her house that she could not even find the time to get
herself ready. She just had to fix her herself while she was getting
supplies for her household from the fisherman, etc. He compared her to a
fallen leaf that only made noise when being run over by his car. This
made sense to me as the woman was silent doing her housewife job until
she could not take it anymore and was only heard when she was breaking.
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- Post questions you would like to about any poems you have read in this assignment
I do not really have a question about one certain poem. I more so
have a question about poem’s overall. How does anyone truly understand
the concept of peoms and their meanings behind them? I mean it is art,
right? So everyone can interpret the poems in a different way. Or is
there an overall concept that I should be seeing? Symbolism is hard for
me and the more hidden the message is, the more complicated it is to me.
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- Discuss Wallace Stevens’s “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” using the exegetical schema
I read the Blackbird in this poem as a symbol of a little bit of
everything. It was money, people, nature, etc. To me this poem was a
correlation between many worlds that we live in. The blackbird seemed to
portray the definition of the physical thing (such as water flowing) to
the emotion behind it (such as his shadow meaning dark thoughts).
Wallace took a simple animal and made it everything around him. The
author was talking to everyone showing how everything can be connected
affecting each other. He wanted us to see different perspectives of each
aspect of life.
*(The Second student didn’t post their Discussion Assignment. When they do I will give it to you so you can respond to them.)
Response Essay
Write a three-paragraph essay (two pages) describing, explaining, analyzing, interpreting one of the
poems listed in this week’s reading assignment (except “Thirteen Ways of
Looking at a Blackbird”).
Use an exegetical schema
Allegorical level: What?
Structural or dramatic level: How?
Anagogic or symbolic level: Why?
Use the above schema to answer the following questions:
- Who is speaking to whom, upon what occasion does this speaking
take place, and where is it located? Whether or not the speaker is the
writer of the poem, you must characterize the speaker. - What is the poem about, e.g., is it about love, war, hatred,
anger, loss of nerve, an aesthetic experience, an experience of nature,
beauty, loss of faith, transcendence, etc.? For example, “’Thirteen Ways
of Looking at a Blackbird’ is about the different ways we may see and
think about any object.” - How does the poem get from its beginning to its end, what tensions
are developed/resolved, and what is its main turning point? Also, how
does it begin and how does it uncoil? - To what end is this poem formed? What, to you, at this time, are
its most significant meanings? What ultimately does it say/speak to
you? Why should we read this poem?
Please submit assignment by Sunday at 11:59 p.m. EST
- If
an essay is below standard (below a “C”) in terms of content, style,
and punctuation, you will have to rewrite it to receive a grade, so be
sure not to submit first drafts. - Acceptable
essays will graded “B” if they meet the demands of the assignment, “A”
if they both meet the demands of the assignment and teach me something,
and “C” if they are minimally satisfactory. - You
may rewrite C- and B-level essays (except for the final essay), but if
your essays progress in quality, you will earn a final grade based on
improvement rather than an average of all assignments (of course, if you
work is “upand-down,” your final grade will be more of an average
grade).
Pages to help you with Discussion Assignment and Essay
Volume 2
- Emily Dickinson’s poems, pp. 82–101
- Stephen Crane, from War Is Kind, pp. 631–633
- Edwin Arlington Robinson: “Richard Cory,” “Miniver Cheevy,” pp. 688–690
- Robert Frost, pp. 735-736: “Mending Wall,” pp. 737-738; “The Death
of the Hired Man” pp. 738–742; “Birches,” pp. 744–746; “Stopping by
Woods on a Snowy Evening,” p. 747 - Carl Sandburg, “Chicago,” pp. 772–774
- Wallace Stevens, pp. 775–777: “The Emperor of Ice-Cream,” p. 788;
“Sunday Morning,” “Anecdote of the Jar,” “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a
Blackbird,” “The Idea of Order at Key West,” “Of Modern Poetry,” pp.
779–786 - William Carlos Williams: “The Young Housewife,” “Portrait of a
Lady,” “Queen-Anne’s-Lace,” “The Widow’s Lament in Springtime,” “Spring
and All,” “To Elsie,” “The Red Wheelbarrow,” “This Is Just to Say,” pp.
786–794 - Ezra Pound: “To Whistler, American,” “Portrait d’une Femme,” “A
Pact,” “In a Station of the Metro,” “The River-Merchant’s Wife: A
Letter,” “And then went down to the ship,” pp. 795–803 - D., pp. 818–820, “Helen,” p. 822
- Marianne Moore, “Poetry,” pp. 822–825
- S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” pp. 827–834
- E. Cummings: “in Just-,” “O sweet spontaneous,” “Buffalo Bill’s,”
“’next to of course god america i’,” i sing of Olaf glad and big,” pp.
961–966 - Hart Crane, “Chaplinesque,” pp. 1028–1029
- Theodore Roethke, pp. 1091–1092: “My Papa’s Waltz,” “Dolor,” p. 1093, “Elegy for Jane,” “I Knew a Woman,” pp. 1094–1096
- Robert Lowell, pp. 1289–1291, “For the Union Dead,” pp. 1298–1300
- Gwendolyn Brooks, “A Street in Bronzeville,” “We Real Cool,” “The
Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till,” “To the Diaspora” pp.
1300–1304 - Allen Ginsberg, “Howl”, pp. 1392–1402
- Anne Sexton, pp. 1408–1409, “Sylvia’s Death,” pp. 1410–1412
- Adrienne Rich, pp. 1414–1416, “Diving into the Wreck,” pp. 1421–1423
- Sylvia Plath, pp. 11442–1443: “Lady Lazarus,” “Daddy,” pp. 1444–1449
- Audre Lorde: “Coal,” “The Woman Thing,” “Black Mother Woman,” pp. 1490-1494
- Billy Collins, pp.1553–1554, “I Chop Some Parsley While Listening to Art Blakey’s Version of ‘Three Blind Mice’,” pp. 1555–1556
- Joy Harjo, “Call It Fear,” “White Bear,” pp. 1605–1608
- Rita Dove, pp. 1608–1610, “Parsley,”pp. 1611–1613
- Louise Erdrich, “Dear John Wayne,” pp. 1622–1625
- Li-Young Lee, “Persimmons,” pp. 1635–1638
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