Reference no: EM133210591
1. Read "When We Dead Awaken
2. Write about an element of this essay resonates with you personally in some way.
3. Use at least one direct quote from the essay in your response.
4. Be sure to cite your source using in-text citations.
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Discussion: Black Mountain School
1. Pick one of the poems from this unit's reading:
1."Variations Done for Gerald Van De Widle" by Charles Olsen
2. "I Know a Man" by Robert Creeley
3. "Pleasures" by Denise Levertov
4. "That Bright Grey Eye" by Hilda Morley
2. Discuss the ways in which the poem is using the ideas from Projective Verse in your analysis.
3. Use at least one direct quote Olsen's essay, "Projective Verse"
4. Be sure to cite your source using in-text citations.
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Understanding the biographies of Confessionalist poets can help elucidate some of their more metaphor-driven works. For example, understanding Adrienne Rich's sexuality and her ties to feminist scholarship help us to understand the personal and "archival" work being done in "Diving Into the Wreck
For your Discussion Post:
1. Pick one of the poems from this unit's reading:
1. "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath
2. "A Litany for Survival" by Audre Lorde
3. The Truth the Dead Know" Anne Sexton
4. "Diving Into the Wreck" by Adrienne Rich
2. Read the biography section for the Wikipedia page for either Sylvia Plath. Audre Lorde, Anne Sexton, or Adrienne Rich. 3. Use that biographical information from that page to help to analyze the poem from this week's reading by that author.
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Writing the New "Howl"
For your assignment, I'd like you to write a new your own version of "How!" for a contemporary audience. Start with the same opening line ("I saw the best minds of my generation and move from there. Be sure to utilize anaphora and think about specificity of language, place, experience, etc.