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Thu Dec-15-05 02:37 PM
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My brain is fried.... heeeelp |
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I have to write a ten page paper having to do with the theme of exile by 5pm tomorrow - any suggestions of poets that write about exile and all the stuff that goes along with it? I'd need multiple examples from the same poet to write about =)
My other option is to write a fictional story of exile. I was thinking about that too.
*grumblefinalgrumble*
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Thu Dec-15-05 02:38 PM
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1. agorophobics are self-exiled... |
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Thu Dec-15-05 02:39 PM
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i did my midterm paper on self-exile and i can't repeat topics :(
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Thu Dec-15-05 02:41 PM
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Thu Dec-15-05 02:42 PM
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Edited on Thu Dec-15-05 02:42 PM by MissHoneychurch
and Heinrich Mann
Bertolt Brecht
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Thu Dec-15-05 02:49 PM
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He was self-exiled from Ireland and a lot of his work touches on the theme of exile.
His poetry is much more accessible than his prose work, too.
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Thu Dec-15-05 02:50 PM
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7. Although not strictly a poet |
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Edited on Thu Dec-15-05 02:50 PM by ZombyWoof
James Joyce is an excellent example of author-in-exile... self-exile from Ireland.
My brain is fried too... 7 weeks of new job training and testing galore... :crazy:
:hi: Maggiepoop!
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Thu Dec-15-05 03:10 PM
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I just took a cumulative exam on multivariate statistics (factor analysis, multivariate analysis of variance, multidemensional scaling, logilinear modeling/multiway analysis, cluster analysis, principal component analysis, cannonical correlation). Yeah, it was a math exam.
It was 7 essay questions, too, with the final two worth 30 points each (out of 100). The teacher handed us a stack of legal paper and told us to fill it up. I had about 50 pages of notes on it, too. And the study guide didn't narrow it down at all, either. It basically just summarized the notes. So not only did I memorize the equations, I had to memorize the assumptions, the advantages and drawbacks of the statistical model, and the proper interpretation of the results.
I got only 2 hours of sleep. But now I am done! :bounce:
But I am too tired to do anything.
Good luck on your paper!!
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Thu Dec-15-05 03:12 PM
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I wouldn't tell Zuni if I were you.
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Thu Dec-15-05 03:27 PM
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Just this morning I wondered;"Where is what's her name?" And by golly there you are.
Try Sir Walter Scott; Breathes there a man with soul so dead who to himself has never said this is my own my native land. (From memory)
Later used I believe in 'Man Without A Country' by Edward Everette Hale.
Hi LeftPeopleFinishFirst
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Thu Dec-15-05 03:29 PM
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11. I hope this suggestion will help, Maggie. |
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"The Ballad Of Reading Gaol" by Oscar Wilde. It's about prison, obviously, and not exile. But you can look at it as Wilde being exiled from the society he knew so well and commented on so wittily. Also, he was separated from his children, whom he obviously adored.
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Thu Dec-15-05 03:30 PM
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12. ts eliot the wasteland |
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Its more a metaphorical exile but its about loneliness and decay. Its pretty good.
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Thu Dec-15-05 03:34 PM
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13. Adam Zagajewski's "Try To Praise The Mutilated World" |
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This deals with the idea of exiles in the sense that a crumbling world destroys those with gentle hearts and poetic minds:
Try to praise the mutilated world. Remember June's long days, and wild strawberries, drops of wine, the dew. The nettles that methodically overgrow the abandoned homesteads of exiles. You must praise the mutilated world. You watched the stylish yachts and ships; one of them had a long trip ahead of it, while salty oblivion awaited others. You've seen the refugees heading nowhere, you've heard the executioners sing joyfully. You should praise the mutilated world. Remember the moments when we were together in a white room and the curtain fluttered. Return in thought to the concert where music flared. You gathered acorns in the park in autumn and leaves eddied over the earth's scars. Praise the mutilated world and the grey feather a thrush lost, and the gentle light that strays and vanishes and returns.
Translated by Renata Gorczynski
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Thu Dec-15-05 03:41 PM
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14. Shouldn't you have already read the stuff by now? |
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Thu Dec-15-05 10:28 PM
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It doesn't have to be a research paper, it's just a reflection.
And poems don't take a long time to read.
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Thu Dec-15-05 10:34 PM
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20. true reflection take a long time |
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Thu Dec-15-05 03:42 PM
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15. Watch out! Zuni will be here any sec! |
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I know, someone already said it, but dammit, I wanted to anyways.
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Thu Dec-15-05 10:30 PM
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Fri Dec-16-05 09:02 AM
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26. Zuni has been rumored to be the undead; |
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zombies, more specifically, whose diet consists of brains. And yours are fried. :9 for him.
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Thu Dec-15-05 10:31 PM
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18. There's also Jean Paul Sartre's No Exit |
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Edited on Thu Dec-15-05 10:32 PM by supernova
It's a play about a group of people (seven?) who are all in the the same room together. They gradually realize they are all in Hell together.
They are exiled from Heaven.
edti: :hi: Maggie! :D
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Thu Dec-15-05 10:32 PM
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I decided to do a fictional piece :)
everyone was helpful though
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Thu Dec-15-05 10:35 PM
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kicking the current administration out of the country...if we can't find an institution for the criminally insane that will take them all.
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Thu Dec-15-05 10:35 PM
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22. "Exodus" from the KJV Bible can be poetic, also Amergin |
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Thu Dec-15-05 10:43 PM
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23. being rather a rube per poets |
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I can give no advice, nor suggestions... just some empathy for the mental energy drain caused by finals. Best of luck to you Maggie :loveya:
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Thu Dec-15-05 10:43 PM
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24. being rather a rube per poets |
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I can give no advice, nor suggestions... just some empathy for the mental energy drain caused by finals. Best of luck to you Maggie :loveya:
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Thu Dec-15-05 11:14 PM
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25. Write about yourself as Napoleon and the last night before being exiled |
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End it his last night before death, reflecting on the comparative irony of political exile to complete exile through death. OR
Maybe you could start with his night before death, and chapter it back and forth in relation to his thoughts/perceptions on the night before political exile. In between each mental rambling, put in a poem that is metaphorically related to the new topic/train of thought.
Just a suggestion :hi:
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