TGIF, everybody!
From today's class, please remember the following points: 1) Studying American Culture and Literature has at least five big benefits:
3) I will miss you guys over summer vacation, and I am looking forward to meeting you every Friday in Koki. ABOUT THE EXAMINATION
TOPICS FOR SUBMITTING COMMENTS (by July 25 at midnight)
ABOUT GRADE POINTS ETC. 1) The deadline for submitting comments is July 25 at midnight. 2) You can calculate your regular points like this.
HAVE A NICE SUMMER VACATION (AND GOOD LUCK FINISHING ALL YOUR CLASSES)!!!
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Happy Hump Day, Everybody~
Above are some videos of William Carlos Williams reading his poems (very short!) and of other people reading them, etc. Check them out! **With The Fault in Our Stars, the actress says the poem at about 2:30 into the video. Be patient until then or fast forward to then! And after she says the poem once, she then says a few of her own versions of the poem...** From today's class, please remember the following points
HOMEWORK (for July 21): 1. Read the Williams lecture handout I give you in class. 2. If you haven't posted comments on our blog, you should do it about today's class by July 18. TOPICS FOR COMMENTS (by July 18)
so much depends upon a brown cat asleep smiling mouth twitching catching flying dream birds.
TGIF, Everybody!
I put links above to two "In a Station of the Metro" videos (there are MANY versions, but most of them are bad because they don't read the title as part of the poem), so you should watch/listen to it and practice reading the poem out loud with the native speaker. **The boy James is very cute and has very clear pronunciation, but he makes ONE small mistake when reading the poem: can you hear the mistake????** Remember the following points from today's class:
**If you enjoyed hearing the Liu Sisters read the Rihaku (Li Bai) poem in class today, or if you enjoyed reading Pound's translation of the poem in Meishisen [50], read his poem in Meishisen and write some comments about it!!!** HOMEWORK (for July 21):
TOPICS FOR COMMENTS (by July 18 midnight) 1. Write any question or comment about anything in today's class. 2. Write about Ezra Pound's poem "In a Station of the Metro" (and tell what the boy James' mistake is in his video and explain some more consonance and assonance in the poem!). 3. Write about some combination of nature and human creation that you like. For example, I like Itsukushima Jinja in Hiroshima because you can see the sea (nature) through the red tori gate (human creation). I also like the top of the dome in the Pantheon in Rome because it is an open circle you can see the sky, clouds, and birds through when you look up. 4. Read Pound's translation of the Rihaku poem in Meishisen [50] The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter and write your impression of it! 4. Write your own haiku in English (a three-line poem, but 5-7-5 syllables is optional). Here's my (5-7-5) example: A brown tiger cat Leaping high above the grass Missing butterflies. |