Introduction to Literature Notes (7/11/2008)

WALLACE STEVEN'S POEM ASSIGNMENTS

1. GREG- To An Old Philosopher in Rome
2. MEDINA- Waving Adieu, Adieu, Adieu
3. WHITNEY- Of Modern Poetry
4. LUKE- The Motive for Metaphors
5. TRACEY- Ms. Alfred Uruguay
6. JASON- Anecdote of the Jar
7. AMBER- Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock
8. DOMINIQUE- Study of 2 Pears
9. RYAN- Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
10. KIMBERLY- Connoisseur of Chaos
11. KRYSTAL- A Post Card from the Volcano
12. STEPHANIE- The World as Meditation
13. Aaron- ?????
14. Steve- ?????

What does it mean to be free?
Estella refers to herself and Pip as puppets- Estella is Miss Havishams puppet while both of them are puppets of God.

ASSIGNMENTS FOR MONDAY!!!

• Find the Found Poem (rules provided later) by Monday, have it written ready to read
• Read about different sonnet types and write a sonnet about love to someone you love or like
• Memorize at least the first 4 lines of Wallace Stevens poem and be ready to give a 3 minute speech on the meaning of the poem on.
  

WALLACE STEVENS

His central relationship focused on in every poem is poetry, he writes poetry on poetry. More in depth, he deals commonly with the relationship between imagination and reality.

FOUND POEM RULES

• Consider the motion of the maglev- quote from Jason's Calculus book
  
• Find anything in the world, except police reports, and reorder the words and group them into a poem
• CANNOT add words
• CAN repeat words, delete words, reorder words, and put in different excerpts of words into poem

SONNETS

• Two forms: English (Shakespearian) and Italian. The following web address provides good background information on the differences between the two.
  
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnet
• There are usually 14 lines each line containing 10 syllables (iambic pentameter)
• ASSIGNED READING IN THE BOOK OF SONNETS, either title or page number provided
  
• The Soul to her Rescuer
• Sonnet 30
• Sonnet73
• On His Blindness
• The World is too Much with Us (Italian Sonnet)
• Page 134
• Page 182
• Page 183 (the motto for MSU is derived from this sonnet)
• Page196
• Page 211 (Robert Frost)
• Page 249
• Page 251

THE IDEA OF ORDER AT KEY WEST

• She represents imagination and the sea represents reality
• Tension exists between she and sea; tension exists between imagination and reality
• The woman is walking by the sea singing "beyond the genius" standing at the most southern point of Key West. Key west is the most southern part of the USA.
• Writer seems to prefer the woman's voice to the seas
  
• She has a mind where the sea is mindless
• She is an artificer (artist)

VOCAB

1. Poesis- Greek work for "make"
2. Artificer- artist
3. Mis en abyme- into the abyss; a spinning act of divination