ENG102 FINAL

FA 2024

Seamus Heaney, “The Skunk”

Up, black, striped and damasked like the chasuble/At a funeral mass, the skunk’s tail/Paraded the skunk. Night after night/I expected her like a visitor.

Randall Jarrell, “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner”

From my mother’s sleep I fell into the State,/And I hunched inn its belly till my wet fur froze. Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,/I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters./When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.

Matthew Buckley Smith, “Poem Without Metaphors”

Some days, there are no other words for pain,/And for the worst, the literal is best:/The rain against the glass is only rain,/Your heart is just a muscle in your chest,/The book ends in a bookish sort of way,/The moonlight stands for nothing but the moon,/Your children carry half your DNA/And will inherit all your savings soon,/Somewhere a car is racing through the night,/No faster than a swiftly moving car,/A brace of deer glance up at something bright-/Gone still, exactly like the deer they are./And as for you, you could be anyone/Who’s done, who’s said, the things you’ve said and done.

Martin Espada, “Late Night at the Pawn Shop”

The apparition of a salsa band/gleaming in the Liberty Loan/pawnshop window;/Golden trumpet, silver trombone,/congas, maracas, tambourine,/all with price tags dangling/like the city morgue ticket/on a dead man’s toe.

Basho, “Haiku 1”

In the twilight rain/these brilliant-hued hibiscus/A lovely sunset

Basho, “Haiku 2”

An old silent pond…/A frog jumps into the pond,/splash! Silence again.

Shiki, “Haiku 3”

Toward those short trees/We saw a hawk descending/On a day in spring.

Shahryar, “Still Life”

Flowers leaves stems,/lips hands eyes/Wave of blood heart sound/moonlight sun/All these are frozen/There’s not a single arrow/in time’s bow

Paul Muldoon, “Meeting the British”

We met the British in the dead of winter./The sky was lavender/and the snow lavender-blue./I could hear, far below,/the sound of two steams coming together/(both were frozen over)/and, no less strange,/myself calling out in French/across that forest-/clearing. Neither General Jeffrey Amherst/nor Colonel Henry Bouquet/could stomach our willow-tobacco./As for the unusual/scent when the Colonel shook out his hand-/kerchief: C’est la lavande,/une fleur mauve comme le ciel./They gave us 6 fishhooks/and two blankets embroidered with smallpox.

Carol Ann Duffy, “Little Red Cap”

At childhood’s end, the houses petered out/Into playing fields, the factory, allotments/Kept, like mistresses, by kneeling married men,/The silent railway line, the hermit’s caravan,/Till you came at last to the edge of the woods./It was there that I first clapped eyes on the wolf.

Alfred Lord Tennyson, “The Lady of Shalott”

Heard a carol, mournful, holy,/chanted loudly, chanted lowly,/Till her blood was frozen slowly.

Brian Turner, “Phantom Noise”

There is this ringing hum this/bullet-bourne language ringing/shell-fall and static this late-night/ringing of threadwork and carpet ringing/hiss and steam this wing-beat/of rotors and tanks broken/bodies ringing in steel humming these/voices of dust these years ringing/rifles in Babylon rifles in Sumer/ringing these children their gravestones/and candy their limbs gone missing their/static-borne television their ringing/this eardrum this rifled symphonic this/ringing of midnight in gunpowder and oil this/brake pad gone useless this muzzle-flash singing this/threading of bullets in muscle and bone this ringing/hum this ringing hum this/ringing

Clint Smith, “the drone”

the drone was once a scrap of metal the drone look as if it might be a toy the drone is not a/toy the drone could have been something other than a killing machine the drone could have/been a house the drone could have been a spoon the drone could have been a swing the/drone does not know who it is going to kill next…

Sylvia Plath, “Tulips”

The tulips are too excitable, it is winter here./Look how white everything is, how quiet, how snowed-in/I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly/As the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands./I am nobody; I have nothing to do with explosions./I have given my name and my day-clothes up to the nurses/And my history to the anesthetist and my body to the surgeons….

Morgan Parker, “If You Are Over Staying Woke”

Water/the plants. Drink/plenty of water./Don’t hear/the news. Get/bored. Complain/about the weather./Keep a corkscrew/in your purse./Swipe right/sometimes./Don’t smile/unless you want/to. Sleep in…

What is the message of “The Sun” by John Galsworthy?

The message in “The Sun” is that PTSD from war affects everyone, you can’t get stuck in your trauma you need to move forward from it

What happens in “The Sun”?

A Soldier returns home from WWI to find out his Girl has left him for another Man. The Man doesn’t want to lose the Girl and threatens her if she tries to leave

What is Naturalism?

Naturalism is setting up a dramatic experience in the most realistic way possible, whatever is on stage is realistic, serious, little movement, dialogue driven, dialogue needs to be realistic so audiences are convinced of the actors emotions

What is Commedia Dell’Arte?

Commedia Dell’Arte is when the most powerful character has the least powerful role, the plot is thin and predictable, actors improvise, shaped by carnivalization (when the lower class reveals the upper class’s foolishness), stock characters who wear masks

What distinguishes commedia dell’arte from Shakespearean drama?

Shakespeare was inspired by Commedia dell’arte, he uses stock characters and physical comedy but also has a set script/dialogue

What happens in “The Flying Doctor” by Moliere?

“The Flying Doctor” is about Volere in love with Lucile, but the girl’s father, Gorgibus, wants her to marry someone else. The Volere hires his servant, Sganarelle, to pretend to be a doctor so the girl can go far away from her father and marry the boy she loves

In what way does “Latin Night at the Pawn Shop” use instruments to suggest cultural loss?

The instruments are displayed in the stores window and described as a salsa band, showing just how many instruments used in Latin culture were sold to the shop so families could afford what they needed or presents

3 aspects of Shakespeare’s Plays

Leadership - What Elizabethans expected their monarchs to do and not do

Natural (good) & Unnatural (bad) - the supernatural

Appearances - People are not who they seem to be

King Lear

Older, effective leader who wants to abdicate/retire in favor of his daughters, ego driven

Goneril

Oldest daughter of Lear, opportunistic and greedy, married to Albany

Regan

Lear’s middle child, exactly like the oldest sister, self-interested, married to Cornwall

Cordelia

Lear’s youngest daughter, the favorite, doesn’t agree with Lear’s decision to split the kingdom between the sisters

Duke of Albany

Goneril’s husband, rational

Duke of Cornwall

Regan’s husband, cruel and self-interested like his wife

Edgar

Gloucester’s legitimate son, “good” son, tries to escape Edmund who want to kill and replace him

Edmund

Gloucester’s illegitimate son, “bad” son, raised in France and comes back to be introduced to royal court, plots to inherit his father’s land

Gloucester (Duke)

Loyal advisor to the king, naive and trusting

Kent (Duke)

Loyal advisor to the king, wants to help him even after being banished

Oswald

Goneril and Albany’s steward, head butler/servant

The Fool

Lear’s jester, makes jokes about Lear’s bad decisions

Burgundy

Suitor to Cordelia, interested in her for her family’s wealth and power

King of France

Another suitor to Cordelia, understands her value and strength of character, interested in her for her

Scene 1 of King Lear

King lear is retiring and asks his daughters how much they love him, their responses will decide who gets what part of the kingdom but his youngest refuses to play along. Occurs in his own castle

Scene 2 of King Lear

Edmund the illegitimate son of Gloucester comes up with a plan to get his father’s inheritance, he forges a letter from Edgar saying if they both kill Gloucester they’ll split the inheritance. Takes place in Gloucester’s castle

Scene 3 of King Lear

Oswald tells Goneril how her father is treating the servants and gives him permission to be rude back to Lear. Occurs at Goneril’s castle

Scene 4 of King Lear

Lear’s Fool makes fun of his bad decisions. Still at Goneril’s castle

Scene 5 of King Lear

The Fool continues to bring up Lear’s bad decisions, the fool sees things more clearly than Lear does. Occurs outside Goneril’s castle, waiting for the horses so they can go to Regan’s castle

In what ways would an Elizabethan audience consider King Lear a poor leader?

King Lear is retiring instead of remaining on the throne till death, he is splitting his nation, the nation is split based on how much his daughter’s love him, he banishes the daughter that loves him the most and disowns another for not treating him like a king

What is “Sure Thing.” by David Ives about?

It is about two people who meet and constantly say the wrong things to each other, each time they say the wrong thing a bell rings and the conversation restarts until they get it right. It is a warning about how society won’t let us be individual

What is To Kill a Mockingbird about?

To Kill a Mockingbird is about prejudice and that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover

Atticus Finch

Lawyer from Alabama, has 2 kids, takes on Boo’s case

Boo Radley

Black man accused of raping a white woman (this isn’t true, the woman’s father raped her), murdered after the trial, has a disability, he saved Scout and Jem from the woman’s father

Scout

Atticus’s daughter, narrator

Jem

Atticus’s son

What happens in “Bubbling Well Road” by Rudyard Kipling?

A white British man goes exploring in Indian tall grass to hunt a boar, he gets lost and finds a well, he is terrified of what he sees/hears, gets out of the grass and is led by a priest, he burns the grass down

What is “Bubbling Well Road” about?

“Bubbling Well Road” is about colonial racism

What is “How Pearl Button was Kidnapped” by Katherine Mansfield about?

“How Pearl Button was Kidnapped” is about a young, white girl who goes along with Maori women back to where they live, they liberate Pearl and she has new experiences with the native people of New Zealand, in the end the police find her and bring her back home

What is the thematic significance of Pearl Button’s name?

Her name is Pearl because she is white and her last name is Button because of all of the clothes she wears compared to the Maori women

What is “Perhaps Under Different Circumstances” by Sonia Weiser about?

“Perhaps Under Different Circumstances” is about Anna and Henry who match on a dating app and agree to go on a date, the date doesn’t really go well, they both self-censor and it takes place during Covid

What is “Orient Point” by Emma Straub about?

“Orient Point” is about the speaker, her husband John, and their baby Eve who are all on the way to her husband’s family house during the summer. In the end the speaker kills herself because she feels so alienated and disassociated from her family. It is about how women suffer from postpartum depression and we need to understand how it manifests in people