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Song: Sara Hill, Molly Heintz
When we analyzed film, we talked about light, color, chunking, and imagery.
When we talk about writing we often talk in terms about rhetorical devices--such as repetition, imagery, metaphor, structure, voice, tone, ext.
Activity 1:
Get with a partner and share your photos/blogs from last Thursday.
What does the image do that the writing cannot do? What does the writing do that the image cannot?
How would you describe their image to someone who hadn't seen it? How would you describe the writing to someone who hadn't read it? Imagine your partner is a writer or photographer and you are reviewing his or her work. Write a brief response under the comment section of his or her blog.
Activity 2:
Examine the reading for today--how would you answer the following questions for Gary Snyder's essay? How would you connect the answers to your question to the author's thesis or claim?
Questions to Consider:
Group 1: What is the rhetorical situation?
- What occasion gives rise to the need or opportunity for persuasion?
- What is the historical occasion that would give rise to the composition of this text?
Group 2: Who is the author/speaker?
- How does he or she establish ethos (personal credibility)?
- Does he/she come across as knowledgeable? fair?
- What is his/her intention in speaking? To attack or defend? To exhort or dissuade from certain action? To praise or blame? To teach, to delight, or to persuade?
Group 3: Who make up the audience?
- Who is the intended audience?
- What values does the audience hold that the author or speaker appeals to?
- Who have been or might be secondary audiences?
Group 4: What is the form in which it is conveyed?
- What is the structure of the communication; how is it arranged?
- What kind of style and tone is used and for what purpose?
Group 5: How do form and content correspond?
- Does the form complement the content?
- What effect could the form have, and does this aid or hinder the author's intention?
Group 6: Does the message/speech/text succeed in fulfilling the author's or speaker's intentions?
- For whom?
- Does the author/speaker effectively fit his/her message to the circumstances, times, and audience?
- Can you identify the responses of historical or contemporary audiences?
A visual image is a solid thing that one can interpret. However, you don't really gain a deeper understanding or background of the object. When you read something, it's harder to visualize but you get to learn the story behind the object in the picture. Like the pitcher plant for example, looking at it you would think that the leaf "pitchers" were for capturing water, but if there was a writing on it you would learn that the pitchers are actually for capturing and dissolving/absorbing insects. To describe an image, one should start with color, shape and texture. Perhaps describing the background or surroundings would help as well. To describe a writing, one should offer a background on the subject and the author.
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Shawn Seaton
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ReplyDeleteLauren Halbert, Alex Bales, Sara Hill, Shawn Seaton, Emily Swaim
Gary Snyder is arguing for the protection of the environment, so he is trying to persuade the reader to see the environment as a place. He is writing this during a time where there is forest destruction and a lot of uproar about protecting the environment. He is using this new public icon, Smokey the Bear, to persuade people to treat the land properly.
The form of this reading is a poem with stanzas and has smokey the bear talking. The style that is used is an informative tone and him putting his ideas on the listener and telling them what's going on. The informative style is displayed as writing in all caps with more of a forcefull tone and feeling.
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Sara Adelman
Molly Heintz
Michael Gloss
The form of the poem is very choppy and disconnected. There lacks a certain flow that many poems have, yet the organization of ideas is very effective in getting the message across. The poem is split into distinct blocks of ideas, and instead of creating fluidity throughout, Snyder forces the reader to stop and think after each specific segment. The words and the way the poem is presented is oretty harsh, and I think this conveys a type of darkness and sharpness of content. While reading it, the reader must stop and absorb the material stated before being able to move on. The combination of short, sharp phrases and long, wordy stanzas gives a seriousness to the topic as well as a sense of confusion. Snyder may be trying to use this type of writing to make people confused and force them to start thinking about this topic on a grander, more interactive scale.
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Dani DeBruin
Ted Mathews
Emma Broadnax
Group 2:
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Austin Godfrey
Erik Gerver
He talks about nature as if he experienced it first hand and has learned everything there is to know about the topic. Also, since he is buddhist himself, the way he incorporates his beliefs into the poem, gives it more meaning.
The way he writes his poem and the sensory details he uses, makes it clear that he has a lot of knowledge on the topic. He seems unfair, because he assumes everyone should have the same amount of knowledge and experiences as him.
He seems like he is attacking because he says how somkey the bear will punish you if you do wrong. It praises smokey the bear but blames the people that do wrong and sets a code for them.
Group 3:
ReplyDeleteThe audience is anyone who enjoys poetry and Gary Snyder as a writer. Also people that are Buddhist that want to learn about the environment.
The audience is intended to be Buddhists rather than the traditional Christians so there is a higher level of respect towards nature and balance with Buddhists.
The secondary audience would be the hippies of the sixties.
Liza Jaszczak, Alex Frisvold, Nicole Hanninen
Group 6: Yaheng Chen, Chris Cozzi, Tom Yung, Sarah Craig.
ReplyDeleteWe believe that Gary Snyder's intention for writing this work was to incorporate Buddhism into the environmentalist context. The reader who he is try to engage would be one who can relate to his views. It also uses many themes that anybody can relate. These involve his academic background, his love of nature, and his fascination for eastern thought. It seems that, especially with the characterization of Smoke the Bear, anybody can tie a piece of themselves to it. In the context of his writing, we believe he was ahead of of his time and isolated in his pure belief. It seems that he was unique in his ability to fully appreciate what exactly the era was trying to accomplish. This writing would most likely be over a lot of peoples heads, since most American aren't familiar with eastern culture and writing styles.