e e cummings

By King Meera -
10-11 on Sept 14
·         Sense of abjectness
·         Autumn and loneliness-fragmentation, gradual descent; slowly walking movement; isolation
·         Typographical poetry – using typeface to represent ideas – later called concrete poetry or visual poetry
·         Modernism – 20th century – after WW1 (notion of the world as disposable) angst, malaise (illness of mind), existential crisis
With WW II, more complex, sophisticated, efficient way of killing many people 
loss of faith in establishment, church (look up sterility in this context)
·         Cummings was a graphic artist
·         Understanding the (movement)essence of every creature
·         When do we become who we are? Is gender essential or constructed
·         Unschooling, untraining – deliberate defamiliarization
·         Our sense of order and discipline make no sense to the natural world.

 12-1 on Sept 18
·         Fractured syntax
·         Apostrophe – to(a dedication)
·         Sounds instead of meanings- modernism
·         Evocative
·         Denotative - > connotative
Leave to imagination
·         Staccato rhythms of the typewriter
·         Fractured in syntax and rhythm - incomplete lines - impermanence
Has he erased the rest?
·         Art is a process?
not self- completing
requires audience
·         Do the posed body—jumbled up sentence
·         Praxis
·         Fragility of art itself
·         Negative space not empty space isn’t space marked through rhythm silence.

10-11 on Sept 21
  • Violent in that it takes away choice
  • Readers must (are forced to) draw parallels, remove parentheses, arrange syntax
  • reader engagement is there but not consensual
  • obscure type of writing
  • imagist {object (entity) vs image (perception, constructed through biases, rely on perspective, reductionist, captures essence)}
  • Look up Che
QUICK RECAP WITH BHAVANI MA'AM:

  • fragility vs vulnerability
  • just because you are vulnerable, does not mean you can't make a mark
  • one word of significance written in pencil will outweigh pages of rambling in pen
  • mockery of elitist society
  • pretense vs. originality
  • seeing vs believing (perception vs reality)
  • susceptibility and perspicuity
  • writing style (syntax, vocabulary, juggling words)
  • tone (justifying, emoting, questioning, evocative, mocking)

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