Which are your favorite poems in this week's reading and why? It might help to speak of the poems in pairs. It seems to me that "No Art" and "XY" are a certain kind of poem and "Life's Work" and "March of the Hanged Men" are another kind. I don't know if it's an accident that the first two are written by men and the last two written by women. What do you think? Is there such a thing as a gendered voice? Do these poems seem gendered at all?
"Life's Work" is pretty banal and its very banality is what, I think, makes it so thrilling. Fixing the pull--in fact naming the pull (how many of you knew those knobs were called that?)--is pretty simple, everyday stuff. How does Shaugnessy make it more than simply the act of fixing the pull (while, of course, never letting us forget that it's also about fixing the pull)?
Welcome to the blog for Prof. John Talbird's English 220 class. The purpose of this site is two-fold: 1) to continue the conversations we start in class (or to start conversations before we get to class) and 2) to practice our writing/reading on a weekly basis in an informal forum.
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