Respond to ALL FIVE prompts below. Remember, Reader Responses may be executed with “exam”-style language. Focus on getting down the strongest analysis possible as concisely as possible. You MUST number/letter your responses so that they match the numbers/letters of the various prompts below. If you fail to format your responses appropriately, each instance will automatically cause a point to be removed from your semester-end total. I have five classes worth of these to grade and I can’t be slowed down by you not following directions…
1) Quoting to support central idea claim: For EACH of the reading requirements listed below, quote a passage you consider representative of central ideas for the text, in question. After each passage example, explain why the quotation you cited is “part” of the text’s “whole”/central ideas, closely analyzing words and phrases to clarify/strengthen your analysis. [Length: ONE concise paragraph for EACH prompt](4 in total)
a) City Wilds—“New Moon Over Roxbury” (61-72) (
b) “The Waking” by THEODORE ROETHKE
c) City Wilds—“Swamp Boy” (132-141),
d) “In the End There Were Thousands of Cowboys”
2) Reading deeper with poetry: Explain ONE way the poem assigned to your Panel can be used to analyze the City Wilds piece you were also assigned. In other words, how could the poem, in question, be deployed to read more deeply into the City Wilds piece, in question? Again, closely analyze words and phrases of both texts to substantiate your analysis. [Length: ONE concise paragraph] (grab a quote)
3) “Wildness” in City Wilds: Revisit the following passage and respond to BOTH prompts below it:
So I will argue that consciousness, mind, imagination, and language are fundamentally wild. “Wild” as in wild ecosystems—richly interconnected, interdependent, and incredibly complex. …Is art an imposition of order on chaotic nature, or is art (also read “language”) a matter of discovering the grain of things, of uncovering the measured chaos that structures the natural world? …The “art of the wild” is to see art in the context of the process of nature—nature as process rather than as product or commodity—because “wild” is a name for the way that phenomena continually actualize themselves. …So language does not impose order on a chaotic universe, but reflects its own wildness back (Gary Snyder’s A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds 168, 174).
a) Explain how the City Wilds piece your Panel new moon might be considered “wild” based on Gary Snyder’s quote. Make ONE specific/developed connection between Snyder’s passage and the text, in question, to more clearly illustrate your thinking. “Specific/developed connection” means to quote (with page number included) directly from the City Wilds piece, in question, and analyzing how certain words and phrasing in the quotation speak to a connection with specific language/ideas of Snyder. [Length: ONE concise paragraph]
b) Do the same type of analysis that “(a)” required of you, but this time do it for a City Wilds text City Wilds—“Swamp Boy” Again, don’t forget to make ONE specific/developed connection between the City Wilds text and the language/ideas of Snyder. [Length: ONE concise paragraph]
4) Snyder/postmodernism and The Day of the Locust: Explain how The Day of the Locust could be connected to Gary Snyder’s quote above AND the passage from Postmodern American Fiction below. Cite a specific passage from the novel for both the connection to Snyder and the postmodern passage to better illustrate your reasoning. [Length: TWO concise paragraphs] *LOCUST Vs. The two quotes
If the revolutions of postmodern thought have altered our understanding of how texts produce meaning, they have also altered how we think of texts themselves, and how we think of the roles of the reader and the writer. One way to understand these changes is through a distinction between “work” and “text.” …The literary “work”…is thought to be “closed”: its boundaries are clearly defined, its meaning limited and fixed by its author (the “author”ity on the work). By contrast, the literary “text” is “open.” Part of an endless web or network of other texts, its boundaries are fluid and provisional, its meaning plural and in play, circulating though the conscious and unconscious intentions of the writer, the reader, and culture. …[The study of] Literature and other discourses such as philosophy are increasingly read as “texts” (From the Introduction to Norton’s Postmodern American Fiction xxii).
Panel materials—You must provide me ALL of the following passages (with page numbers included) on Saturday, 11/22
1) Central idea passages—passages only, not the explanations—for the City Wilds reading and poem NEW MOON AND THE WAKING [RE: #1(a), #1(b)]
2) A quote from your Panel’s poem assignment that helps you explain its connection to your City Wilds(NEW MOON)—again, email the passage only, not the “connection” explanation [RE: #2]
3) Only the passage from your Panel’s City Wilds(NEW MOON) piece that you consider representative of its “wildness” [RE: #3(a)]
4) A passage from The Day of the Locust that connects to ideas present in the Gary Snyder “wildness” and Postmodern American Fiction quotations. Again, only the representative passage from Locust is needed.
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