Weekly Outline
Week 1, 1/14 -- Introductions
Week 2, 1/21 -- What is literature? What is identity?
Week 3, 1/28 -- Narration, paper #1 due
Week 4, 2/4 -- Character, Setting, Symbol, Theme
Week 5, 2/11 -- Quiz #1, film
Week 6, 2/18 -- Poetry
Week 7, 2/25 - - Poetry, paper #2 due
Week 8, 3/4 -- Poetry
Week 9, 3/11 -- Poetry, paper #3 due
Week 10, 3/18 -- (out of class work on blog)
Week 11, 3/25 -- SPRING BREAK
Week 12, 4/1 -- Quiz #2 on poetry, Theory
Week 13, 4/8 -- Poetry paper #4 due, Theory, film
Week 14, 4/15 -- Theory
Week 15, 4/22 -- Theory, quiz #3
Week 16, 4/29 -- Paper #5 due
Week 17, 5/6 - Final Exam PARTY
Our group chose to analyze “Begotten” by Andrew Hudgins using the Psychoanalytic Jungian Criticism. We can first explain that in the poem, the character subconsciously craves to be in another family. He finds solace in the fact that he can physically see his phenotype in the other members of his family, but he feels that “on the inside” he does not belong in this family. Perhaps subconsciously his parents do not feel “close” to him and he can sense that on a subconscious level, causing them not to feel “close” or the “oneness” that family generally has.
ReplyDeleteThe subject craves attention from his parents, but his misplaced “energy” or “soul” does not “click” with the other members of his family, which makes him feel out of place.
Our group was Elizabeth Clemmons, Joseph Ledo-Massey, Megan McNeely, Madison Stacey
Demetrius A. Jones
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Sidney
Mark Shealy
ENC 1102
April 15. 2015
Group critical Thinking
Recounting Africa's time when children were stolen from their homes and forced into slavery. The underlying cause of history in Africa's dark times was slavery. The symbolism is very involved in the rich history of Africa as she stated was before they were taken as slaves. With its rich 'niles' and gorgeous rolling hills. She uses marxism to the fullest, by clearly defining how in her eyes and views the painstaking process of widespread village slavery. Including village leaders selling their own people into the slave trade. Maya Angelou outlines how something so beautiful can be turned corrupt and greedy.
Angela, Karis, Natalie
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Africa by Mayo Angelo // African American and Ethnic Studies
African American and Ethnic Studies are from the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920’s. It is a form of analysis that focuses on the minority of blacks and equality. Mayo Angelo wrote a poem called “Africa.” She started out confident and empowering, which was the opposite of the typical female African American. She was a minority. Africa was invaded by brigands and then all of her confidence and strength was stripped from her. Eventually Africa gets it’s power back. She keeps the pain from the traumatizing event with her, but she strives to overcome it. She does not want to seem small or weak. However, she would like to remember what happened and learn from it.
We think the poem 'Postcard from Kashmir" is about someone who loves being neat an like to keep everything in order. He feels that he has his home in his hand and feels it's his perfect definition of a home. We are not sure what he means when he says "when I return." We assume he is just going away for a while and when he returns nothing will be the same. We think the poem is cultural criticism because he has left his culture for western culture, and he is trying to take his life with him in the shape of a postcard.
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Our group chose to analyze the poem "To The Ladies," written by Mary Chudleigh. We decided to apply the world view of "Feminist Criticism." This poem focused on the negatives that women faced when becoming married, and the oppression of women as a whole. The poet writes "wife and servant are the same," meaning once a women becomes married she is no longer viewed as a women but transformed into a servant. Chudleigh also describes women as "fearing her husband as a God," showing the world the men or to be "male" has no relation to being a women or wife in any way. In conclusion Chudleigh uses exaggeration to represent the extreme oppression women face.
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-Chloe Taylor
-Jordan Hepner
We originally thought the poem "Those Winter Sundays" was about a child describing his father getting ready for work and how hard his job was when he was actually an office worker. However, we were wrong and the poem is actually about a man getting ready to go to church which is implied by the word "Sunday" being in the title. We chose to analyze the poem in the view of Marxist Criticism. We think the man hated his job maybe because of the physical labor it required and left traces of his hard work on his "cracked hands that ached." We also think he took it out on his family because the child quickly gets out of bed "fearing the chronic angers of that house."
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Daniel Dearing
Brett Gelineau