American Modernism (Finals w/ Notes)

Passing by Nella Larsen

• Different ways to pass

• Foreshadowing

The Gilded Six-Bits By Zora Neale Hurston

• Questions Black Women’s agency

• Foreshadowing

• Money, infidelity

the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls by e. e. cummings

• while having these conversations you miss the unimaginable

• no desire to move beyond their circle

my sweet old etcetera by e. e. cummings

• plays with spaces and gaps

• removing the etcetera could change the meaning

• a goodbye message

• narrator is slowly losing consciousness

pity this busy monster, manunkind by e. e. cummings

• hating the world

• apocalyptic

Poetry By Marianne Moore

• Irony with wanting poetry to be geniune, but then uses obscure references or weave other works into her own

• Experimental

And No Birds Sing —> “The Market-Place” By Pauline Leader

• alienation

• internalized hatred

• distance from what she is observing

Absence Country By Gabriela Mistral

• Loss, otherness in environment, infertility, loyalty

• Country as a nation state vs. a home

• inability to find shelter

• memory and how it shows that experiences are real, and how memories can warp with time and can’t be passed down anymore

A Word By Gabriela Mistral

• Something on the tip of your tongie

• Know, but can’t explain

Doors By Gabriela Mistral

• Middle Space

• Knowing, but also not knowing

The Teller of Tales By Gabriela Mistral

• Possible different translation of “The Storyteller”

• Providing comfort

• People telling stories

The Other By Gabriela Mistral

• One side that is firey, and the other side that is acceptable

• Essentially a goodbye letter to the “unacceptable” side

The Storyteller By Gabriela Mistral

• How connection can result in a different relationship with the environment

  • Stories acting as memory and through sharing it the memory lives on

The Corn By Gabriela Mistral

• Corn

• Connection to the Earth

  • Watching the corn grow and metamorphosis

George Washington Gomez By Américo Paredes

• Conflict with being on the border and choosing an identity

• Rapid Development and modern upgrades

  • Tension with the new vs. the old

• Language Politics

• Trouble with choosing a name for the baby

Modern Times By Charlie Chaplin

• Surveillance

• Political

• Worker Unions and Strikes

• Physics don’t apply to main character

• Last silent film

• Commentary on technology

To Julia de Burgos By Julia de Burgos

• who she is vs. who she has to be

• gender roles, duality of self, self-reflection

• essence

Poem Without Meaning By Julia de Burgos

• Dreams, shadows, stars, breeze

The Gift of the Magi By Julia de Burgos

• The King

• Repitition

• Gifting

After By Julia de Burgos

• What happens after death

• Where are you"

Poems of a Death That Could Be Mine I By Julia de Burgos

• …

• Talking about Death and what will happen

Poems of a Death That Could Be Mine II By Julia de Burgos

• Depart?

• !

A José Marti By Julia de Burgos

• A message to someone

• An apology

Puerto Rico is in You By Julia de Burgos

• embracing heritage

• includes a quote

• nationalism

• speaks directly to the reader

• home away from home

I Was My Own Route By Julia de Burgos

• People determining their own path

• Finding one’s self

Beginning of a Poem Without Words By Julia de Burgos

• !

• ?

• Repetition

• Movement through different entities

The Moon is Down By John Steinbeck

• War

• Military Occupany

• Gaps in story

• A lot of dialogue

• Grapples with political engagement

Yokohama, California By Toshio Mori

• Japanese Internment

• Multiple perspectives