week 5

September 26 and 28

epiphany:

1. an experience that is equivalent to an 'outer world' experience
2. Job's epiphany in the bible
3. sometimes can happen while you are sleeping
4. writing can never quite capture it

Kubla Khan

• Xanadu: represents everything that is
• 'Fragments in a dream'

deep focus: both the background and foreground are in focus

background is as important as the foreground

READING ALOUD:

• reading aloud= 'the reader becomes the book' Wallace Stevens
• Sounds are most important to the elementary students, no the words themselves
• Like the Labyrinth the creatures from her world are the same ones in her 'dream,' when she was 'carried away' to the labyrinth

ZORA:

• she didn't understand what she watched and heard, until she left it and went to college and talked about it
• "lie up a nation" culture is based upon lies (stories)

America was founded on a lie:

• Christopher Columbus
• George Washington and the cherry tree
• Paul Bunyan
• Pecos Bill
• John Henry
• movie 'Tall Tale'

Flannery O'Connor was a devoted Orthodox Catholic who wrote horrible novels

simile: like or as

metaphor: making them one: is or was

• blown banners turn into wings
• resemblance is key
• cloud watching
• a tree that looks like a man
• "remeberance of the things past" ~Shakespeare
• "the world without imagination" Wallace pg 23

THE WIZARD OF OZ:

• L. Frank Baum wanted to write the great American children's story from this land, not Europe
• He also wanted to exterminate all of the Native Americans

THEMES:

1. innocence: sings a song about lemon drops~ Dorothy is very young and innocent she doesn't know much
2. "Toto I don't think we're in Kansas anymore" is a metaphor for infarmiliarity
3. it's a road movie: like so many other American films
4. wizard isn't great at all, he is fake
5. hit the road and pick up people that are colorful and exciting to help fulfill your 'manifest destiny'
6. secular humanism: the truth is within yourself, not a divinity (nausticism)

O'Connor was against secular humanism:

• Hazel is a man who believes in something very passionately
• He is spiritual because of how strong his belief is
• In creating a church without Christ, he was really acknowledging that one existed
• He wasn't just indifferent to his spiritual welfare, he was strongly against the people who didn't care
• Flannery pities Hazel because of how passionate he is ex) pg 222
• She copied his death from Oedipus
• Also she got Motes from in the new testament when they 'mote their eyes'

For test:

• Henry James
• Flannery O'Connor
• Wallace Stevens
• Zora Neale Hurston
• Citizen Kane
• Wizard of Oz
• doppelganger

Wallace themes:

• Disolutionment of reality: when you open your door, you come out into the weather
• Disolutionment of 10 o'clock: people dreaming, asleep and imaginary
• colors: white= reality; blue= imagination
• direction: north= real; south= imagination
• the nature of poetry it's self, is poetry

Sunday Morning:

• great poem of the earth
• she has rejected the great religions, but still has the earth
• death makes life beautiful
• Shakespeare: love them more because death makes them beautiful
• Grandparents are more beautiful now than before because you look at them more carefully now that you have less time than them
• must look at things as if they were the only things in the world
• images: filled with style and language
• imagist

The Red Wheelbarrow

The Story of 2 Pears:

• still-life: objects set up to study and paint
• don't want them to look like anything but pears, nothing more

The Poems of Our Climate:

• like a haiku - gives you a vivid image

Prologues to What is Possible:

• simile: much more beautiful then Flannery O'Connor
• like a storm- being 'carried away' by his own simile
• compares 2 things then starts thinking about the 2nd thing, then the next