week 4

September 19 to 21

the male predator: 'carried away,' abducted, raped

animal-> demon lover-> beast-> prince charming
wolf-> satyr-> Heathcliff, Darcy, The Beast-> lacking something, too boring

~need to know stories, so you will know what is going to happen to you

MYTH- hero with no parents:

~Oedipus
~Dorothy
~Moses
~Oliver Twist
~Luke Skywalker
~Citizen Kane

The Wizard of Oz:

• first song: "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"
• Mr. Marvel- the man with the wagon (medicine man, trickster, confidence man)
• school teacher= wicked witch (Mrs. Gulch)
• twister 'carries her away'
• people from California become from Kansas
• black and white-> color
• in the end you find it's a dream

"poets influence us because they make us fall in love with their poems"

Flannery O'Connor

southern gothic

"the truth is always besides the point"

Sunday Morning

• Stevens liked his birds: he talks of pigeons, geese, blackbirds, etc.
• "we are imprisoned by words and language"
• the sounds of his words carry you away
• Wallace Stevens defines his poetry as an attempt to define poetry as a supreme fiction

Epiphany (Christian)

Epiphany (feeling)

~an experience so powerful that it changes the world around you

Shakespeare created the way you think, and speak. Pay attention to your thoughts and words because that is all you have