"I found it necessary, when I was young, to put myself in mind and solicit myself to
keep me to my duty: gayety and health do not, they say, so well agree with those grave
and serious meditations; I am at present in another state: the conditions of age but too
much put me in mind, urge me to wisdom, and preach to me. From the excess of
sprightliness I am fallen into that of severity, which is much more troublesome:
and for that reason I now and then suffer myself purposely a little to run into disorder,
and occupy my mind in wanton and youthful thoughts, wherewith it diverts itself."
This passage speaks so well to me; the way this suspensive sentence is set up is almost
in the form of a puzzle. It's a perspective of thoughts that wants to speak for itself,
the passion of the thought wants to convey itself quickly so in it's form it synthesizes
it's entirety within each sentence while still conveying it's point to the very end.
I feel that this style is close to the style and form that I strive to achieve and I
admire it all to well.
"Years every day read to me lectures of coldness and temperance."
Ah! It's amazing how he sets up this sentence to create a double meaning. Almost a pun.
"Years every day," reads as an exhaustion, the everyday feels like years and in thoughts
years deep thoughts of coldness and temperance drag on.
I now defend myself from temperance, as I have formerly done from pleasure;
it draws me too much back, and even to stupidity.Now I will be master of myself,
to all intent and purposes; wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation
than folly.
This sentence structure sets up two parts to a whole. He tells us what he's going to say
and then he says it again in explanation and why. His thoughts are intriguing,
and the sentence structure and style most definitely suites what he is trying to convey.
"I gently turn aside, and avert my eyes from the stormy and cloudy sky I have before me,
which, thanks be to God I regard without fear,but not without meditation and study,
and amuse myself in the remembrance of my better years:"
HA!HA!HA! The humor and pretentiousness in the this sentence is amazing. But he's so
justified within himself which makes this statement
"thanks be to God," not "thank God," he's clearing stating that he is own God and is
creation careless controversy toward anyone who regards God as something higher than
human.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Monday, November 2, 2009
Dry September
The use of the Drummer to build the tension and anger was a great technical symbol. The drummer only spoke to raise the tension of the other speakers. When the drummer spoke I could imagine a drum pulsing to heighten the tension.
The description of Butch on the bottom of page 2 tell a lot about his character. He is used as an archetype for the "angry,old and dim witted," people of the south who hate black people for a reason that they are unsure of themselves.
"Butch sprang up again. The silk of his shirt clung flat to his heavy shoulders. At each armpit was a dark half moon. ' That's what I been telling what I --'"
Butches opinion holds no real substance and through this description it's shown that he wouldn't be able to argue for himself because he's simply just a brute.
The random clients are tools to give background information and information that isn't told through description. It's interesting how the men from in the story killed the "accused," without knowing the whole story, if it was true or not. They didn't give him a chance to speak and they treated him like an animal, but Faulkner shapes the story well and clearly makes the men who acted irrationally the animals.
The use of the car was also a great symbol of a belief that wouldn't stop not even for one man to get out. The believe was going so fast and strong but he still wanted out, and for his belief that they shouldn't kill the black man for something they are unsure of he risked his own life by jumping out of the car.
The description of Butch on the bottom of page 2 tell a lot about his character. He is used as an archetype for the "angry,old and dim witted," people of the south who hate black people for a reason that they are unsure of themselves.
"Butch sprang up again. The silk of his shirt clung flat to his heavy shoulders. At each armpit was a dark half moon. ' That's what I been telling what I --'"
Butches opinion holds no real substance and through this description it's shown that he wouldn't be able to argue for himself because he's simply just a brute.
The random clients are tools to give background information and information that isn't told through description. It's interesting how the men from in the story killed the "accused," without knowing the whole story, if it was true or not. They didn't give him a chance to speak and they treated him like an animal, but Faulkner shapes the story well and clearly makes the men who acted irrationally the animals.
The use of the car was also a great symbol of a belief that wouldn't stop not even for one man to get out. The believe was going so fast and strong but he still wanted out, and for his belief that they shouldn't kill the black man for something they are unsure of he risked his own life by jumping out of the car.
Chaper 6 Tacit Persuasion Patterns
Sound (voiced description of an event) can only reach so far until it reaches it's distance and sight (observation of environment) has the ability to move beyond sound. By using description and observation together to voice an understanding of what is internalized from both combined creates a contrast in voice,description,style, and form.
High contrast is great for tacit persuasion. The use of word play is also very important. A word is formed and is used for a general meaning. Playing with the word and using it outside of it's general content is much more interesting than the conventional use of the word. The audience word play interesting because it goes back to originality and voice. Instead of creating new words, new structures such as ABABAB are formed in order to form multiple meanings for the word and sentence.
High contrast is great for tacit persuasion. The use of word play is also very important. A word is formed and is used for a general meaning. Playing with the word and using it outside of it's general content is much more interesting than the conventional use of the word. The audience word play interesting because it goes back to originality and voice. Instead of creating new words, new structures such as ABABAB are formed in order to form multiple meanings for the word and sentence.
Chapter 5
Voiced and unvoiced are two different types of writing styles and also two different types of thinkers. Voiced is more emotional and dependent on outside influence for a reaction. Unvoiced is trying to be objective.
What kind of person is prose style reaching out to?
Chapter 5 is stating that voice makes a point to the personal and individual. With all of the personal significance involved a statement can be stretched out because of the personal psychology of what is being internalized.
In order to keep it prose writing with a strong voice, central words of description should be added. Something that is understand generally and not in I think this...statements.
Singular words from a cultural idea provide a descriptive view that a person is voicing. Background, perhaps time period, personality, all flood in with these periodic words.
You can get closer to the identity of the writer with voiced prose because all of the scattered filler information is omitted, taking us straight to the core of what needs to be said.
This is my understanding of voiced prose.
We have an overall desire to move closer to each other, this is why we create. The more we can understand our-self and our own voice the better we can convey our meaning. The more people find that understanding of their own voice the closer we can move into a deeper understanding of another persons voice.
"The point of life is to sing our song until others chime in."
What kind of person is prose style reaching out to?
Chapter 5 is stating that voice makes a point to the personal and individual. With all of the personal significance involved a statement can be stretched out because of the personal psychology of what is being internalized.
In order to keep it prose writing with a strong voice, central words of description should be added. Something that is understand generally and not in I think this...statements.
Singular words from a cultural idea provide a descriptive view that a person is voicing. Background, perhaps time period, personality, all flood in with these periodic words.
You can get closer to the identity of the writer with voiced prose because all of the scattered filler information is omitted, taking us straight to the core of what needs to be said.
This is my understanding of voiced prose.
We have an overall desire to move closer to each other, this is why we create. The more we can understand our-self and our own voice the better we can convey our meaning. The more people find that understanding of their own voice the closer we can move into a deeper understanding of another persons voice.
"The point of life is to sing our song until others chime in."
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Suspensive Sentence
4:43am and the glow of Facebook meekly rested on her frazzled stare which made her look like an anime cartoon and gave her all the personality and voice without a word needing to be spoken, while meds that needed to be taken laid at her waist and the warmth of her laptop crept through the gift of a hand-sewn quilt which did justice to only her fair thighs; if someone walked in 2F3 there could be a mistaken illusion of warmth filtering throughout Jade's "crack-den" of a suite
exploded with: clothing, toiletries scattered under a mirror that laid semi-diagonally against the face of collages on the wall that reminded her of past endeavors and current friends, florescent dorm room lights which were never used but when it was, was covered by a green pashmina so the ugly glow would never surface, plastic orange pumpkin Halloween lights with creepy carved faces that streamed the frame of her bed paralleled with a stream of white Christmas lights across her windowsill which were catered by handcrafted flowers made of recycled egg carton boxes, while the latter to her bed was unseen because the ground was cocooned in clothing - yet it was still visible that her floor was marked up with an assortment of markers - little notes from her friends that rose up to a refrigerator housed with hummus, Baileys and some left over vanilla pudding - but all she could do is stare at her guitar which she rarely used but when she did the Sirens song could reel you in at instant and still she sat there, anxious, bored, cold and heady, her thoughts were the only company she desired; so she slowly grabbed her meds, snipped them in quickly and with a heavy"uuuugggggggghhhhhhh" and then a quick smile that held all the secrets in the world, she began to type.
exploded with: clothing, toiletries scattered under a mirror that laid semi-diagonally against the face of collages on the wall that reminded her of past endeavors and current friends, florescent dorm room lights which were never used but when it was, was covered by a green pashmina so the ugly glow would never surface, plastic orange pumpkin Halloween lights with creepy carved faces that streamed the frame of her bed paralleled with a stream of white Christmas lights across her windowsill which were catered by handcrafted flowers made of recycled egg carton boxes, while the latter to her bed was unseen because the ground was cocooned in clothing - yet it was still visible that her floor was marked up with an assortment of markers - little notes from her friends that rose up to a refrigerator housed with hummus, Baileys and some left over vanilla pudding - but all she could do is stare at her guitar which she rarely used but when she did the Sirens song could reel you in at instant and still she sat there, anxious, bored, cold and heady, her thoughts were the only company she desired; so she slowly grabbed her meds, snipped them in quickly and with a heavy"uuuugggggggghhhhhhh" and then a quick smile that held all the secrets in the world, she began to type.
Stranger in the Village
Bladwin Perfectly combines the periodic style with paratactic progression very well, clearly exerting his control and understanding of his assertions. The connections he forms from the very beginning of the reading set the reader up to think about religion in this small Swizz village and it's effect on his stay there. Always listing the things that the village did not have was a great to way explain that outlets to experience and diversity were not apparent. He sets up the reader, if no one knew who Baldwin was we wouldn't understand why he felt estranged. We know that he is from America where these appliances or banks, movies theaters are much more prevalent. He moves to show that with lack of diversity , the people of the village have a one track mind. For example on page 160 he writes about how the Swiss in the village believed that "black men come from Africa..."
He moves back to connect religion to the Africa Natives and how the Swizz "buy" them for the purpose of converting them. There is an association with darker skin being associated with the devil or evil but if the Africa Natives convert to Catholicism - the very religion that criticizes the Africans, they will be saved.
Bladwin also shows the reader the humor in the ignorance when on page 161 he states: The bistro owners wife beamed with a pleasure far more genuine than my own and seemed to feel that I might now breathe more easily concerning the souls of at least six of my kinsmen."
Before he writes about his rage he justifies why he should or would be anger, when informs us with background information about his father and his believes. This makes it clear that he has moved away from those beliefs and has controlled his rage through understanding it, making him more progressive and show us that he is willing to move away from instilled or past beliefs.
Baldwin perfectly structures this essay, and layers it three fold with icing on top.
He moves back to connect religion to the Africa Natives and how the Swizz "buy" them for the purpose of converting them. There is an association with darker skin being associated with the devil or evil but if the Africa Natives convert to Catholicism - the very religion that criticizes the Africans, they will be saved.
Bladwin also shows the reader the humor in the ignorance when on page 161 he states: The bistro owners wife beamed with a pleasure far more genuine than my own and seemed to feel that I might now breathe more easily concerning the souls of at least six of my kinsmen."
Before he writes about his rage he justifies why he should or would be anger, when informs us with background information about his father and his believes. This makes it clear that he has moved away from those beliefs and has controlled his rage through understanding it, making him more progressive and show us that he is willing to move away from instilled or past beliefs.
Baldwin perfectly structures this essay, and layers it three fold with icing on top.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
kipps and belsey
This reading of Kipps and Belsey did not interest me in slightest. The emotion of the characters was unapparent and very disconnected. Perhaps it was the intention of author the write in this manner but it read as very confusing. I'm going to give a few examples of what I liked and disliked about this passage.
On page 5. in one of the emails Jerome seems very disconnected when writing to his family. A certain level of misunderstanding of his families issues is also very apparent when he states " I hope you can see from everything I've written that your feud, or whatever it is, is a complete waste of time." He then moves to assert his moral views, " Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy." He doesn't try to give a suggestion as to how his family should fix there issues, but just simply states that he is above it.
The form used in the email on page 4: "(a) passing wind (b) shouting (c) analysing the 'phoney metaphysics' of prayer (d) singing loudly (e) laughing," doesn't seem very personal. It seems more of a formal way to write. Keeping in mind that Jerome is writing to his father, shows again the disconnect, and it would have made much more sense to just use a list instead of solely singling out each category that way. It seems that the author was just showing that she can use this form, but it primarily doesn't fix and it makes no sense for it to be there. Also, the smileys used on page 5. seem very out of place as well and doesn't flow into the sentence at all. If humor was trying to be conveyed it came off very fake. Making the son seem very passive-aggressive.
The Smith doesn't set up a good visual for what the family looks like! I didn't know until half way through the reading that the family was Black. Everything she describes is surface, implying the reader should try and discover their meaning of the situation. Although, she does a great job of contrasting the family in South Africa and the boys family through his nonchalant description of them.
Smith show's that there is an underlying issue between the husband and wife when he ignores a statement she asserts to him:
"Howard frowned. 'That's your contribution'
'Howard - there's an egg on the stove, I don't know who put it on, but the water's evaporated already - smells nasty. Switch it off, please.'
'That's your contribution?"
This also implies that the wife's only contribution to the house or husband to to provide him with food and living, and nothing more, with how the dialogue was structured.
Zadie Smith is trying to divulged into the psychology of the characters, by showing us the formality, in which, the characters are moving to assert their deep rooted issues, through dialogue that is formal and disconnected, and doing so poorly created a description that is unclear.
On page 5. in one of the emails Jerome seems very disconnected when writing to his family. A certain level of misunderstanding of his families issues is also very apparent when he states " I hope you can see from everything I've written that your feud, or whatever it is, is a complete waste of time." He then moves to assert his moral views, " Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy." He doesn't try to give a suggestion as to how his family should fix there issues, but just simply states that he is above it.
The form used in the email on page 4: "(a) passing wind (b) shouting (c) analysing the 'phoney metaphysics' of prayer (d) singing loudly (e) laughing," doesn't seem very personal. It seems more of a formal way to write. Keeping in mind that Jerome is writing to his father, shows again the disconnect, and it would have made much more sense to just use a list instead of solely singling out each category that way. It seems that the author was just showing that she can use this form, but it primarily doesn't fix and it makes no sense for it to be there. Also, the smileys used on page 5. seem very out of place as well and doesn't flow into the sentence at all. If humor was trying to be conveyed it came off very fake. Making the son seem very passive-aggressive.
The Smith doesn't set up a good visual for what the family looks like! I didn't know until half way through the reading that the family was Black. Everything she describes is surface, implying the reader should try and discover their meaning of the situation. Although, she does a great job of contrasting the family in South Africa and the boys family through his nonchalant description of them.
Smith show's that there is an underlying issue between the husband and wife when he ignores a statement she asserts to him:
"Howard frowned. 'That's your contribution'
'Howard - there's an egg on the stove, I don't know who put it on, but the water's evaporated already - smells nasty. Switch it off, please.'
'That's your contribution?"
This also implies that the wife's only contribution to the house or husband to to provide him with food and living, and nothing more, with how the dialogue was structured.
Zadie Smith is trying to divulged into the psychology of the characters, by showing us the formality, in which, the characters are moving to assert their deep rooted issues, through dialogue that is formal and disconnected, and doing so poorly created a description that is unclear.
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