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beccaelizabethTeach put some links in the 'external links' section of Blackboard.
At least I think it was teach. I can't find any way to put links in.
I think she said in class they were just to get us started.
Geoffrey Hill, September Song
(which is not in fact a song. which is Important.)
http://www.oup.com/uk/booksites/content/0199265380/essays/ghill_essay2.pdf
on the one hand, pdf. Bastard things take forever to open on this box.
on the other, oup stands for Open University Press. Which looks promising. But backing up a level shows it's in the section "Examples of timed essays written by undergraduates in the UK in response to poems by Geoffrey Hill"
... undergraduates. That means us, doesn't it? So, kind of like chatting in class then.
It seems a bit shallow / unorganised to me. Doesn't tie it to the language much.
Points:
Holocaust, Jewish tradition (Passover),
maths-language for Nazis, routine
elegy or song? not a song, rhythm and rhyme.
poet writing about things that didn't happen to him - doesn't tie it to "elegy for myself" but should. Dates, a day after Hill was born, the ten years old who ends up 'deported'. Connects {and seperates them at once, difference a day makes (and a lot of miles).} Suffering & Injustice universal {!}, where we're born is luck. Dreadful consequences of war and racism. Tries to tie that to date poem is written.
Says poem is about examining the negative, what people are not. Does not specifically mention the 'un' repeats. Absence, removal, taking away. Inevitablity/horror.
Doesn't mention much about the phonology or... anything. All contexty.
Seamus Heaney, Punishment
Which is about a dead woman found in a bog. We got shown pictures. On the big projector screen.
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1995/heaney-bio.html
Good bio
born April 1939, eldest of nine
interesting bit about tension between old farming and new industrial versions of Ireland
rural County Derry is the "country of the mind" where much of Heaney's poetry is still grounded.
many of the best known poems in North, his important volume published in 1975, are linguistically tuned to the Anglo-Saxon note in English.
born into a society deeply divided along religious and political lines, one which was doomed moreover to suffer a quarter-century of violence, polarization and inner distrust. This had the effect not only of darkening the mood of Heaney's work in the 1970s, but also of giving him a deep preoccupation with the question of poetry's responsibilities and prerogatives in the world, since poetry is poised between a need for creative freedom within itself and a pressure to express the sense of social obligation felt by the poet as citizen.
Weeman's Palace of Love: Response to "Punishment"
I'm just surprised the content filters didn't eat it...
the "about Weeman" section: "Kyle is a rather entertaining individual who is currently working on a double major in the sciences and arts. When not emersed in a book, he loves hanging out with friends, and, well, he just about loves doing anything."
working on = undergrad = us again
'emersed' is not a good sign
Not much about the language, all sorts about feelings. Which, fair enough for some dude's blog, but bugger all use for class.
"Rather than an adulterer - something so terribly wicked, and deserving of her fate for almost destroying civilization!"
... one must assume the sarcasm font got lost, or else one must rage and say he loses all his points.
"Like wood, we are easily fractured."
... so, that would be the special kind of wood, then, and not the sort buildings are made of?
Also the reprint of the poem loses the stanzas, which, you know, bad.
Basically made of lose.
At least I think it was teach. I can't find any way to put links in.
I think she said in class they were just to get us started.
Geoffrey Hill, September Song
(which is not in fact a song. which is Important.)
http://www.oup.com/uk/booksites/content/0199265380/essays/ghill_essay2.pdf
on the one hand, pdf. Bastard things take forever to open on this box.
on the other, oup stands for Open University Press. Which looks promising. But backing up a level shows it's in the section "Examples of timed essays written by undergraduates in the UK in response to poems by Geoffrey Hill"
... undergraduates. That means us, doesn't it? So, kind of like chatting in class then.
It seems a bit shallow / unorganised to me. Doesn't tie it to the language much.
Points:
Holocaust, Jewish tradition (Passover),
maths-language for Nazis, routine
elegy or song? not a song, rhythm and rhyme.
poet writing about things that didn't happen to him - doesn't tie it to "elegy for myself" but should. Dates, a day after Hill was born, the ten years old who ends up 'deported'. Connects {and seperates them at once, difference a day makes (and a lot of miles).} Suffering & Injustice universal {!}, where we're born is luck. Dreadful consequences of war and racism. Tries to tie that to date poem is written.
Says poem is about examining the negative, what people are not. Does not specifically mention the 'un' repeats. Absence, removal, taking away. Inevitablity/horror.
Doesn't mention much about the phonology or... anything. All contexty.
Seamus Heaney, Punishment
Which is about a dead woman found in a bog. We got shown pictures. On the big projector screen.
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1995/heaney-bio.html
Good bio
born April 1939, eldest of nine
interesting bit about tension between old farming and new industrial versions of Ireland
rural County Derry is the "country of the mind" where much of Heaney's poetry is still grounded.
many of the best known poems in North, his important volume published in 1975, are linguistically tuned to the Anglo-Saxon note in English.
born into a society deeply divided along religious and political lines, one which was doomed moreover to suffer a quarter-century of violence, polarization and inner distrust. This had the effect not only of darkening the mood of Heaney's work in the 1970s, but also of giving him a deep preoccupation with the question of poetry's responsibilities and prerogatives in the world, since poetry is poised between a need for creative freedom within itself and a pressure to express the sense of social obligation felt by the poet as citizen.
Weeman's Palace of Love: Response to "Punishment"
I'm just surprised the content filters didn't eat it...
the "about Weeman" section: "Kyle is a rather entertaining individual who is currently working on a double major in the sciences and arts. When not emersed in a book, he loves hanging out with friends, and, well, he just about loves doing anything."
working on = undergrad = us again
'emersed' is not a good sign
Not much about the language, all sorts about feelings. Which, fair enough for some dude's blog, but bugger all use for class.
"Rather than an adulterer - something so terribly wicked, and deserving of her fate for almost destroying civilization!"
... one must assume the sarcasm font got lost, or else one must rage and say he loses all his points.
"Like wood, we are easily fractured."
... so, that would be the special kind of wood, then, and not the sort buildings are made of?
Also the reprint of the poem loses the stanzas, which, you know, bad.
Basically made of lose.