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The innate truth in texts
Texts are devoid of context
Meaning is not constructed
The social construction of texts
Q1:What does representation acknowledge?
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Well Done!
White Yellow
Orange Blue
Q2: Which above model best describes how history and memory are traditionally represented?
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History: document pastMemory: personal/collective experience
History: personal/collective experienceMemory: document past
History:Factual accounts Memory: devoid of emotion
History:Devoid of emotionMemory:Objective
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represents the effectiveness of the war
represents the destruction of innocence that war causes
Symbolises the positive attributes of war
Depicts the tough decisions generals must make
Q3:What is the effect on the representation of the Vietnam War by describing the hospital, school, factory as being destroyed?
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In Thai Binh (Peace) Province
I’ve used up all my film on bombed hospitals, bombed village schools, the scatteredlemon-yellow cocoons at the bombed silk-factory,
Splendid!The poem depicts the Vietnam War through a negative representation. It achieves this by evoking images of destroyed places that strongly symbolise peace. The poem ironically discusses that the speaker wants to
forget these memories however their attempts through juxtaposition only serve to cement them into the mind of the responder. Thus the feelings of repulsion that
we feel when we imagine these images are transferred to the cause of the destruction; namely the Vietnam
War
Personification, destruction life, negative tone
Personification, rebirth, positive tone
Metaphor, destruction life, negative tone
Metaphor, rebirth, positive tone
Q4: What technique is used in the above quote and what tone does it have on the representation of the Vietnam War?
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…The scattered lemon-yellow cocoons at the bombed silk-factory
You’re a Clever Cookie!
‘Lemon-yellow cocoon’ metaphorically alludes to the corpses surrounding the bombed out factory. Cocoons
are empty shells and evokes images of death and decay. Cocoons also suggest the potential of life
which the war has prevented. ‘Lemon-yellow’ serves to show the sourness of war. The overall tone is negative
conveying the Vietnam War as devoid of life.
Questions its reliability
Questions its objectivity
Questions its validity
All of the above
Q5: The poem uses juxtaposition to cause an emotional response towards the destruction of the war. However the speaker admits that they will only select one memory to keep. What effect does this have on the concept of memory?
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Another child with its feet blown off, a girl, this one, eleven years old, patient and bewildered in her home, a fragile small house of mud bricks among rice fields.
So I’ll use my dry burning eyes to photograph within me dark sails of the river boats, warm slant of afternoon light…and a boy and small bird both perched, relaxed, on a quietly grazing buffalo.
Nice One!
Humorous Melancholy
Happiness Anguish
The wooden step acts as a metaphor for the speaker’s memory of a past love. What tone is created in the above extract through the word ‘splinters’?
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The old steps live only in me: my feet and thighs remember them, and my hands still feel their splinters.
A Time Past
You Ain’t Wrong!The speaker’s admission that memory is
selected and that some memories are repressed calls into question the validity of memory. However it is interesting that despite this
admission both memories are actually published and in fact give a fuller representation
of Vietnam and the war.
represents her husbands change in love towards her
That the steps looks nice
That the steps represents her desire for change
That her husbands love has increased overtime
Q7:What is the effect of the personification of the granite as ‘handsome’ have on the meaning of the poem?
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those wooden stepsare gone now, decayed,replaced with granite,hard, gray, and handsome.
Amazing!The steps are also used to signify the historical
significance of the event for the speaker. The ‘ancient’ wooden stairs being replaced by
granite steps is reminiscent of the change of historical periods. Levertov is thus representing personal experience (the domain of Memory) as
important and valid as History.
Viewer question• Your task is to write 200 words on the below question and bring it in
by next lesson. Best answer will win a prize.
• ‘A Time Past’ is depicting the memory of a personal event (i.e. breakdown in marriage). Does Levertov’s representation of the event increase the validity of the concept of memory? How does she achieve/not achieve this? (Make reference to at least two techniques and their effect)
That history isolates people
That he has a big family
History is a collective experience
That family is more important than friends
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What effect does the hyperbole have on the representation of history and memory in the above extract?
In houses like these your family of millions, Polacks, Wops, Scotch-Irish, people shut now into ‘projects,’
A Letter to Marek about a Photograph
Top of the Class!Levertov blurs the lines of what is history and
what is memory. The hyperbole is used to create a shared identity amongst those that are
marginalised. Moreover memories are validated as being able to produce the unwritten history
of the oppressed.
Traditional models of genre should be adhered to
Genre is constructed and can be subverted
Genre should limit composers
Composers should not subvert genre
What effect does the ‘Letter to Marek’ being written as a poem have on the concept of literary genre?
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Magnificent !The purpose of Marek’s poetry is depicted as being
a tool to record a marginalised peoples’ history; blurring the lines between the supposed ‘distinct’
constructs of history and memory. This is corroborated by the fact that this is supposed to be a ‘letter’ to Marek however it does not adhere to the
structural elements of a letter. Hence it serves to symbolise the blurring of genre/conceptual
frameworks and the purpose of texts literary production.
Suggests that poetry dilutes historical truth
Alludes to the negative impact of poverty
Symbolises the empowerment that poetry provides when it records history
Symbolises the speakers disillusionment of poetry to tell history
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What effect does the metaphor of thermometer and the personification of human ideals have on the representation of history?
to lift griefs out of the blind pit of unknowing, placing glass and mercury under the tongue of dreams – magical quicksilver that measures the fever it is to be human.
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