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influenced by Dante's Divine Comedy - Purgatorio Guidido - in 8th circle of hell written in 1910-11 Laurence Peril apparently random thoughts linked psychologically, not logically seems to be a dialogue between "you" and "I" where "you" defines the "I" and vice-versa dialectical conflict interior monologue introspection, talking to oneself in telling his story, Prufrock finds redemption he may be considered to be an 'abject' - a recluse because never considered to be a part of society social responsibility and moral vision - Dante gave a voice to Guido, the utterly damned A drama of literary anguish - stream of consciousness Why Prufrock? because name of furniture store near Elliot's place but also, 'prufstein' in German means touchstone and a touchstone is used to identify precious metals LINE 1: 'you and I' - either <narrator and reader>, <speaker and implied auditor> or <the d...

http://www.arvindguptatoys. com/arvindgupta/well-english. pdf http://www.ijells.com/wp- content/uploads/2012/04/April- Issue-IJELLS.pdf http://literarism.blogspot.in/ 2013/11/dalit-literature.html http://ccrss.org/dalitautobio. htm These links should help if you want to read up on A Corpse in the Well by yourself; I will post notes soon. And here they are: Page 136: About the Author and the Extract: "The above extract serves to emphasize the difference in power that exists in villages, and how the Mahars , or Dalits, who loyally served their village, were not respected and treated the way they deserved. The unfair manner in which they are bossed around, and the bravery and sense of duty exhibited by Anna , serve to highlight a broken system and ideology." Possible question: Describe the theme of injustice that runs through the story. Answer: dangerous duty, "father was crushed flat by (it)" near-fatal experience in this situation, duty was to guard ...

journey experiences more important than the quest changing source of water static to fluid very strong rural metaphor binary of urban and rural - great divide fluidity of identities canal far away - takes all day to reach urban sights near the canal, but as they return to the village, the city's parks and kids and balloons are left behind empty hopes - children supposedly represent freedom but are not free; children are victims. Social norms, rules, expectations, roles and identities are forced onto them - bequeathed onto them. All other "claimants" to this inheritance have stepped aside - naturally. Who would want such an inheritance "Our steps the only steps." - No one else walks their path  <In Frost's The Road Not Taken, he doesn't say whether it was the right choice taking the road not taken, just that it has made all the difference. Likewise here we mustn't ever assume that on an individual level, the move from urban to rural is...

how a localized tragedy affects the whole world speaker appears to have lost faith in God pain and time - ideas intentionally placed together contrast of death and youth pain of separation through death physical description pain is eternal no peace even after death physical to metaphysical grief then becomes immeasurable tangible to intangible Concentric circles progression from 30 cm, 7 m, two hospitals and one graveyard, 100 km, across the sea, whole world, "circle with no end and no God"

Not the same thing as modernity Keywords (I shall elaborate later) Modern Period Modernist movement Expressionism, Surrealism etc A set of movements, deliberations, discussions in the first half of the 20th century Usually, literature glorifies life, but in Prufrock, reader forced to question whether he has one to begin with Fragmentation, fractured existence - not whole, not complete, not holistic Imagination and reality We construct our own realities - they are products of our imagination, which shapes our world Reality is constantly changing as we attempt to find imaginatively satisfying ways to perceive the world Reality constituted by an imaginative process of piecemeal attempts at finding coherence.

Guys here's the text for  Riders to the Sea I'll post notes on it once we discuss in class. Cheers!

Hardy’s work – Naturalism, Wessex (countryside), pre-industrial England, nostalgia Role of destiny in everything Society of consumption, consumerism The industrialized were brought back to their human nature “Had chosen thus to fling his soul (<3) Upon the growing gloom” The Darkling Thrush BY  THOMAS HARDY I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-grey, And Winter's dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day. dusk The tangled pine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres, And all mankind that haunted nigh Had sought their household fires. All have returned home to warmth and love, but speaker is alone, leaning on a coppice-gate The land's sharp features seemed to be Rigor mortis The Century's corpse outleant, Century – Victorian Era Death is the starkest contrast to life His crypt the cloudy canopy, Crypt – enclosure, pit The wind his death-lament. The ancient pulse of germ and birth Was ...

YEATS not Yates Remember that. Marks the transition Irish nationalist movement – strong folk tradition (Irish); independent of Great Britain (republic) W.r.t. revival of Ireland and its spirit Written after the Irish uprising of Easter 1916 Fiery spirit (Irish, not Hardy’s) About choosing roles in life – societal, macrocosmic pressures stronger than personal drive Personal choice subservient to social pressure Speaker indifferent at first but then realizes the enormity of what Ireland was trying to achieveContrast between pre- and post-uprising – all has changed Evolution – nation-public-common cause – how he changes through the poem Cursory nods show indifference which is later transformed into celebration and glorification Motley – grey – commonplace existence (no more nonchalance) Significance of "grey/Eighteenth century houses" http://www.enotes.com/topics/easter-1916/in-depth   Countess Markievicz – sweet-voiced then shrill from shouting and fighti...

Hopkins is fangirling over the kestrel - extreme Romanticism minion = subordinate/darling dauphin = nobleman (title) Hopkins is observing the bird on a brilliant morning, where the bird is the lord of the morning dappled = spotted dawn-drawn = morning brings him in riding in the wind = hovering in gusty winds; it does not just fly - it rolls metaphor of humility and contro in your own terms not always the one who's highest that's in control fact that he is witness to this bird lets him explore its inscape and the instress - it is an individual experience compared to a horse (reins) the windhover rules the sky with just two foldable wings lives in the present = unaffected, gliding smoothly in the roughest, harshest winds "My heart in hiding/Strirred for a bird" = gave up poetry, didn't write for years and then a bird comes along and makes him sit up and take notice again achieve, mastery = master of himself, without pretense or self-conscio...

http://www.ohio.edu/people/hartleyg/ref/fiction/pov.html http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/what-effect-does-use-first-person-pov-bring-story-280953 http://classroom.synonym.com/analysis-effects-first-person-narrative-point-1783.html This might help with tomorrow :P