PPT-Major American Writers: Wallace Stevens

Week 4 21116 Poets of the Week William Carlos Williams Presentation TBA Major Poem The Man with the Blue Guitar 135 Poetry Is a Destructive Force 178 The Poems of Our Climate 179 Study of Two Pears 180 The Glass of Water 181 The Man on the Dump 184 . Cat Stevens Where Do The Children Play Cat Stevens Wild World Celine Dion The Colour Of My Love William Joseph Piano Fantasy William Joseph Se Si Perde Un Amore William Joseph StellaS Theme bennymartincomauwpcontentuploads201308repertoirepdf Preown Week . 2 . | . 1/28/16. Poet(s) of the Week: . Walt Whitman and Emily . Dickinson. Major . Poem: . The Comedian as the Letter C . 22. Domination . of Black 7; The Snow Man 8; Le Monocle de Mon . Oncle. RMIT University . Melbourne, Australia. tony.mcmahon@rmit.edu.au. David Foster Wallace and Music: . The . Grunge Writer and the . Hitherto Criminally Overlooked Importance . of . Signifying . Rappers. Major American Writers: Wallace Stevens. New Criticism. A Brief Guide to the Fugitives.  (from poets.org) . “. The Fugitive. was a literary magazine of poetry and criticism published at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, from 1922 until 1925. Both faculty and students, including John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, among others, contributed to this publication. They were practitioners and defenders of formal techniques in poetry and were preoccupied with defending the traditional values of the agrarian South against the effects of urban industrialization.. Moving past perceptions, past experiences, and pessimism. L’Porshia. . Orberg. SWP 2012. Driving our Focus. What is at the . root. of reluctance in our students as writers?. What are some strategies that we can use to help students get past their roadblocks?. Historical Context. American Revolution. ; growth of patriotism. Development of American character/democracy. Use of reason as opposed to faith alone . (compared to Puritan writing which was focused on faith).. Setting Free the Writer Inside!. Lauren Johnson. Spartanburg Writing Project 2012. Think back….. How did you learn to write? . Do you remember anything at all about your early writing instruction?. -KAZUO ISHIGURU. First person narration of an . english. butler named . S. tevens . July 1956 Stevens decided to take a 6 day road trip to the west country of England . He worked as a butler for 34 years. 1915-1945. Dr. Karen Rose. Many . historians argue that America’s cultural coming of age occurs during this . time. . The . artistic innovations . of Modernism are viewed as a . response to . dramatic historical, cultural, and economic events.. George . Beccaloni. Wallace and Darwin’s Correspondents. (Wallace upper right, Darwin lower left, shared correspondents in middle). Parent Records. Child Records. Attachments. Letter ‘packet’. (WCP23). What is American Literature?. American Literature is exactly what it sounds like literature that is specific to America. So what exactly does that mean?. Early American Fiction (1492-1789). The history of American Lit. begins with the 1. “Guitar Player”. 1910. “Aficionado”. 1912. “Still . Life with Fruit Dish on a . Table”. 1914-1915. “Three Musicians”. 1921. Georges Braque. Cubism. “. Popova. : Two Figures”. 1913-1914. Literary . Movements. September 8, 2014. Major themes . in American Literature. American individualism . Also known as . the self-made man. Celebration of ambition and achievement. Original colonists came for religious freedom. . “It is a beauteous evening, calm and free,. The Holy time is quiet as a Nun. Breathless with adoration; the broad sun. Is sinking down in its tranquility.”. . --William Wordsworth, .