Week 3: Atmosphere
- What are the poem’s analogous atmospheric elements (sounds, textures, visuals)?
- What does the poem feel like? Does a poem feel like anything?
Use any means or media to communicate your insights to the rest of the group. You have one week to complete the assignment. P.S. Over the next few weeks, consider looking at the ways that others have approached these questions in new media contexts. Whenever possible, draw upon interesting works that enhance, challenge, or expand the readings of the poems that you have selected. If you are unfamiliar with the field, this is a good place to start: Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 1.
Comments are off for this postWeek 2: on context: “you agree that it is a fashionable grocery list”
Still! thinking about Williams…and this week’s topic of context is a perfect fit for this passage, tacked onto the end of Part II of “Book Two” of Paterson. In response to his interviewer claiming that certain passages from Paterson “sound just like a fashionable grocery list”, Williams responds: “It is a fashionable grocery list.”
Q: Well - is it poetry?
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