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https://docs.google.com/a/cdnis.edu.hk/document/d/1Wf2AtvJw7jdkpypWVGmFX-SIg633zu8PFlmTyNq2DO8/edit?usp=sharing

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sophia's poem is mine to peer assesss

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Tortures
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b94yO8XtgzgcYbJJv3vfRN5gbPlPgYvvRxxh-j9Q_yc/edit

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Vesta - Peer Assessed by 0.2 Ounces of Wew

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Vesta - Peer Assessed by 0.2 Ounces of Wew

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https://docs.google.com/a/cdnis.edu.hk/document/d/1VQGjTpN8G2WlHiHw49sbxJSAzvqEWjmkLl1wQTsor4Q/edit?usp=sharing
An Unexpected Meeting
Thesis: In the poem An Unexpected Meeting, Symborska uses contradiction, metaphor and anthropomorphism to illustrate the titular meeting between people with past conflict and their awkward attempt to reconcile with social niceties.

Paragraph 1: Social niceties

-       “exceeding courtesy”(line 1), bording on cautious, careful, not to overstep one’s boundaries, sensitive

-       “it’s great to see you after all these years” practised, structural, familiar, formal, social

Paragraph 2: Stanza 1: metaphors, contradiction, visual imagery

-       structural repetition of format, formulaic “our [insert ferocious anima] [verb] [non-menacing or opposing act]

-       “our” animals, metaphor for “our” conflicts and aggressions between each other, have been put to sleep, died, been tamed by time and distance

-       tigers, hawks, sharks, wolves all predatory, bloodthirsty hunting predators, aggressive and ferocious

-       (line 3) tigers drink milk like domestic cats, tame, pliable, passive

-       (line 4) hawks walk on land, treading (quietly), no more flight, clipped wings

-       (line 5) sharks have all drowned, dying in their natural habitat, most obviously dead and shocking compared to all the other animals that have been tamed

-       (line 6) wolves yawn (lazy, sleepy, unmoving, drugged) beyond the open cage (they are free to leave but too lazy to do even that), unnatural

Paragraph 3: Stanza 2: contradiction, anthromorphism, metaphor

-       (line 7) snakes have shed their lightning (impossible, implausible, can only shed skin), perhaps have shed their lightning speed of striking and are as tired as the wolves

-       (line 8) apes shed their flights of fancy (of being a man, or more than a mere dumb beast), metaphor for the two people and their young idealistic dreams

-       (line 9) peacocks renounced their plumes (an essential part of what makes a peacock), but represents their pride, beauty, arrogance, superficiality???

-       (line 10) the bats flew out of our hair long ago, no more haunting frenzied entanglement with evil, no confusion, breaking of the structure with “the”

Paragraph 3: Failing of social niceties and attempted upkeep, contradiction

-       (line 11) both parties “fall silent in mid-sentence”, awkward, what they speak of is of no importance at all, not important enough or interesting enough to continue

-       (line 10) all smiles, past help, how can one smile if one needs help, they are past help and helpless, in danger

-       (line 12 and 13) is the conclusion and summary of poem “Our humans/” enjambment focuses on subject, emphasis, first mention of humans and people in the poem, our humans, the speaker owns humans??, like some indulgent master

-       (line 13) “don’t know how to talk to each other” the point of the poem

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Scarlett
https://docs.google.com/a/cdnis.edu.hk/document/d/1mgsMygWhw58NJtUvKx1SXtH_e_aJ6Hp9Tx8PT7e8I4o/edit?usp=sharing

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Tortures

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Through the personification, organisation of the text and glorification of hatred, Szymborska is able to argue that hatred is superior to all other emotions.

Paragraph 1

Analyse lines 1-11 Description of Hatred as a person or figure

Personification of the emotion hatred.

Repeated use of the word “it”

Glorification of hatred

Words like, efficient, easily and “not like other”

Paragraph 2

Analyse lines 11-33 - Hatred is everywhere and in everyone

Hatred is everywhere

“One religion or another ….. gets its own momentum going”

Debating whether hatred is superior

“Oh these other feelings, listless weakling”

Since when does ….. Only hatred”

Praising hate

Gifted, diligent …. football fields?”

Paragraph 3

Analyse lines  33-52 Hatred is superior

Acceptance of hatred

Description of it’s beauty

Praise of it’s actions

Conclusion

- Summarise essay

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The suicide's room

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dwRtzVddqm60lCDv3s5NCzMdr5KyEi7WfKNtSh6nimo/edit#

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parpy parp

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An Unexpected Meeting

In An Unexpected Meeting, Szymborska uses metaphor, visual imagery and contradiction to illustrate the titular meeting between people with past conflict, reconciling with social niceties.

Paragraph 1:

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Allegro Ma Non Troppo - Peer Assessed by Roger

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Allegro Ma Non Troppo - Peer Assessed by Roger

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Ryan
https://docs.google.com/a/cdnis.edu.hk/document/d/1OG06Zi1_IX0marXpYbbnkSpFwd22BKlIRnhL8ohgTt0/edit?usp=sharing

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Jasmine?

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https://docs.google.com/a/cdnis.edu.hk/document/d/1Q74spf8IhNlsmMuFQOxdvMh9wIuOurP75bZK8mkzJ-I/edit?usp=sharing

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In Praise of Feeling Bad About Yourself

In the poem, In Praise of Feeling Bad About Yourself, Szymborska contrasts the world of animals to the reality of human beings through diction, visual imagery, and anthropomorphism, to the effect of showing that the ability to feel sorry for one’s self is a singularly human concept and also what makes us human.

P1 - diction

semantic field

words pertaining to doubt / shame / feeling bad

placement of words after animals

contrast of animals concepts and human concepts

physically and mentally focused diction

P2 - visual imagery

hypothetical imagery

vs very realism driven imagery

again the contrast of the two world

P3 - anthropomorphism

looking into the human concepts

animal world => is there a place for these concepts

bestiality vs a clear conscience

link but then separation of animals from humans

https://docs.google.com/a/cdnis.edu.hk/document/d/1SE_R8jPMt3fo_BaVeByhEmjrzcmF-vrj9chzJuBnT6k/edit?usp=sharing

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Lot's Wife

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ajaIqOog4-8SzPafyioTm8vOOAegBlf__nB8zK17J_8/edit

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In Praise of Dreams - Peer Assessed by Ryan 

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In Praise of Dreams - Peer Assessed by Ryan 

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Roger
https://docs.google.com/a/cdnis.edu.hk/document/d/1BGYXCRSJSDneykZ_7nGJjCq5yNerL-FSK8LccPb7o60/edit?usp=sharing

In Praise of Dreams ~ Szymborska

Thesis: Szymborska uses a stream of consciousness POV and manipulates poetic structure to create a dreamlike, floating quality in the poem In Praise of Dreams, alluding to the freedom one possesses within the domain of dreams.

Body 1: discuss how short 2 line verse poem structure creates disconnected, floating feeling in terms of the progression within the poem.

Body 2: discuss how the stream of consciousness POV jumps from topic to topic, which are seemingly unrelated events; dissociates the poem with rational logical thought that follows a long a singular path —> gives off a dreaming quality where your thoughts are never fixed on one thing.

Conclusion: to a large extent, szymborska manipulates poem structure and stream of consciousness POV to create a dreamlike quality pertaining to the poem In Praise of Dreams. (elaborate slightly more)

Counterclaim (include one)

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Whitney

Thesis: In the poem Coloratura, Szymborska uses parallelism, rhyme, and alliteration to simulate coloratura within poetry, to create the auditory imagery of an opera.

https://docs.google.com/a/cdnis.edu.hk/document/d/1QOUcHsUOvo81K3Lku9d3aoeXjCvYZ4fn7BW25fl315k/edit?usp=sharing

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Caitlin - Cat in an Empty Apartment (Alanna)

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Caitlin - Cat in an Empty Apartment (Alanna)

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Thesis:
Szymborska acknowledges the mix of emotions that one can feel when experiencing loss by writing from the cat's perspective. By showing the change in its routine, its confusion surrounding the owner's disappearance, and its ultimate plan to punish the owner, the poet demonstrates the stages of grief and the denial one experiences at the death of a loved one.

Introduction:
- beginning sentence
- thesis

Paragraph 1: Change in routine
- “Footsteps on the stairs, but they’re new ones. The hand that puts the fish on the saucer has changed, too.”
- “Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should.”
- "Since what can a cat do in an empty apartment? Climb the walls? Rub up against the furniture?"

Paragraph 2: Confusion surrounding the owner's disappearance
- “Nothing seems different here but nothing is the same.”
- “Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.”
- "Every closet has been examined. Every shelf has been explored... Just sleep and wait."

Paragraph 3: Plan to punish the owner
- "Just wait till he turns up, just let him show his face. Will he ever get a lesson on what not to do to a cat."
- “Sidle towards him, as if unwilling…”

Conclusion:
- restate thesis
- concluding statement

https://docs.google.com/a/cdnis.edu.hk/document/d/141tsJR7Xw6npMS4HRUmUHGsAqXOwolMD8tOCLWccmfU/edit?usp=sharing

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Discovery
Szymborska uses repetition, diction, and a degree of non-sequitur to illustrate the human discovery of desire in the poem "Discovery", however abstract the concepts may be in the mind of the reader.  The ambiguity of "Discovery" plays a large role in characterising the man referred to in the poem, providing commentary on either males or mankind as a whole, originating from Szymborska's argued feminist perspective.

P.1: repetition

- mixture of staggered and immediate repetition (i.e. stanza or line has a repeated word or phrase)

- characterises the character as unsure, stuttered

- faced with discovery either large abstract, or small specific

P. 2: Diction

- sways from specific objects, ideals to abstract concepts

- further level of unsureness

P.3 Non-sequitur

- stanzas don't specifically relate to each other

- further level of unsureness

- illustrates the abstract and specific concepts of desire

Conclusion:  Discussion of unsureness --> how it relates to abstract and literal concepts?  what is the value of discovery of different desires?  what does that mean for human connection?  Szymborska inspires thought, does not give specifics, v similar to other poems
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rk24ujLI_jY5XhEpwFxaGN2dSfQTjnTweDlt7cYEveE/edit

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The Joy of Writing
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SJZyx3BdN9XJbacrVc5MxT1BDOH_yKiIQ3UNh6VY00Y/edit

In the poem The Joy of Writing, Szymborska uses manipulation of the fourth wall, metaphor, and a controlling diction to describe an author’s God-like power over the subjects of their writing.

Implications:

In a sense the God-like power that a creator can exert over the subjects of their writing is something that may feel ‘enjoyable’ hence ‘the joy of writing’

Intro:

Body 1:

(1) Why does this written doe bound through these written woods?
For a drink of written water from a spring
whose surface will xerox her soft muzzle?

(5) They forget that what's here isn't life.
Other laws, black on white, obtain.
The twinkling of an eye will take as long as I say,
and will, if I wish, divide into tiny eternities,
full of bullets stopped in mid-flight.
Not a thing will ever happen unless I say so.
Without my blessing, not a leaf will fall,
not a blade of grass will bend beneath that little hoof's full stop.

Body 2:

(2) Why does she lift her head; does she hear something?
Perched on four slim legs borrowed from the truth,
she pricks up her ears beneath my fingertips.
Silence - this word also rustles across the page
and parts the boughs
that have sprouted from the word "woods."

(3) Lying in wait, set to pounce on the blank page,
are letters up to no good,
clutches of clauses so subordinate
they'll never let her get away.

(4) Each drop of ink contains a fair supply
of hunters, equipped with squinting eyes behind their sights,
prepared to swarm the sloping pen at any moment,
surround the doe, and slowly aim their guns.

Body 3:

(6) Is there then a world
where I rule absolutely on fate?
A time I bind with chains of signs?
An existence become endless at my bidding?

(7) The joy of writing.
The power of preserving.
Revenge of a mortal hand.

By writing about something it will survive longer than you will (‘preserving’ it), subverting human mortality: kind of cheating the system (‘revenge’ of a ‘mortal’ hand).

Concusion:

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https://docs.google.com/a/cdnis.edu.hk/document/d/1BcWLCSp0yr9o5i6jauwbUBXndSoezFfpCFwG50cCD1I/edit?usp=sharing

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Renee
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yCA7p8DbBSvZsymsTU-_-aqb1LF0rlxAHYhYSM6a4-0/edit