Your presentation’s intro won the prize for most unique. Connecting your life with your author’s kept everyone engaged and made the author seem more relatable. Your focus on five main literary elements for each passage or section helped me to organize what I should be getting from the presentation, giving me a focus on what I should study for the AP exam. One allusion that you didn’t reference in your analysis was the “Fet” (Blok 2). This line could be alluding to “Afansy Fet,” a poem discussing Ophelia and her songs. Her madness drove her to suicide, making her one of those who find it “difficult . . . to walk among people/. . . pretending not to have been killed” (Blok 3-4). I like how the author uses juxtaposition and paradox in this poem. It begins and ends with the idea of "life's fatal fire" (Blok 10) yet the body of the poem describes a dull, passionless existence, the opposite of fire. The people of these poems have lost their spark and have resorted to simply going through the motions and struggling to "find order in disordered swirls of feeling" (Blok 8). There is also a paradox in the idea that life's fire can be fatal. However, the purposeless individuals in this poem prove this to be true. Passion, the fire needed for life, has killed them, for without it, they are emotionally dead.
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ReplyDeleteYour presentation’s intro won the prize for most unique. Connecting your life with your author’s kept everyone engaged and made the author seem more relatable. Your focus on five main literary elements for each passage or section helped me to organize what I should be getting from the presentation, giving me a focus on what I should study for the AP exam.
ReplyDeleteOne allusion that you didn’t reference in your analysis was the “Fet” (Blok 2). This line could be alluding to “Afansy Fet,” a poem discussing Ophelia and her songs. Her madness drove her to suicide, making her one of those who find it “difficult . . . to walk among people/. . . pretending not to have been killed” (Blok 3-4). I like how the author uses juxtaposition and paradox in this poem. It begins and ends with the idea of "life's fatal fire" (Blok 10) yet the body of the poem describes a dull, passionless existence, the opposite of fire. The people of these poems have lost their spark and have resorted to simply going through the motions and struggling to "find order in disordered swirls of feeling" (Blok 8). There is also a paradox in the idea that life's fire can be fatal. However, the purposeless individuals in this poem prove this to be true. Passion, the fire needed for life, has killed them, for without it, they are emotionally dead.