English 4, Post 4, 'Themed Free Post [II]'
Warm Salutations,
Prospective Biochemists, Chemists and Food Engineers and Pharmaceutical Chemists from FCQF,
This week, I am bringing to you the fourth out of eight blog sessions.
In this particular session, you will be asked to do the following class assignment:
- Comments: Leave a comment on your teacher’s entry + 3 of your classmates' posts
- Word Count: 200 words
- You are free to write any topic you want to, in any manner.
As usual, I leave you a critical review I wrote some time ago for you to read and comment on,
Mobilizing the object of study, Hemingway’s “The Sun also rises”
The following work attempts to look for an intertextual dialogue to occur between T S Eliot’s “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock”, Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” and Hemingway’s “The Sun also rises”. For this to be achieved, several passages from both the poem and the novels have been selected in order to find a point of convergence concerning one paramount topic, the one of the ‘solitude in the quotidian’.
As a mode of the beginning, the topic that may follow up: ‘the solitude in the quotidian’, portrayed in Fitzgerald’s and Eliot’s passages it is now reversed to the coming across of ‘company in the quotidian’. It is in the following lines of Hemingway’s novel that one may find such development of such topic “We stayed five days at Burguete and had good fishing. The nights were cold and the days were hot, and there was always a breeze even in the heat of the day.” (Hemingway, 66)
In the lines above, the voice of narration in Hemingway’s novel is presenting the interaction with the quotidian in a positive outlook. The passage of time is told as a natural, and there is no tedious tone. There is no accountancy of days and nights, but accounting for pleasant experiences in the quotidian. To have “a good fishing” can be accounted for as a pleasant and satisfactory experience found in the quotidian. (...)
References
· Eliot, T. S., and Frank Kermode. The Wasteland and Other Poems. New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Penguin, 1998. Print.
· Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York, NY: Scribner, 1996. Print.
· Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. New York: Scribner, 1996. Print.
I find reason in your analysis, the quote seemed to give some peace after reading it.
ReplyDeleteit's an interesting review, I was even curious to read it later
ReplyDeletewell, I didn't really understand much of the text to be honest, I don't get much literature
ReplyDeleteI find it interesting and the subject of intertextuality is entertaining to study.
ReplyDeletei didn't understand the text as much as i would like to, anyways it is interesting finding similarities between those texts.
ReplyDeleteI have always thought that Hemingway was a great novelist, I have liked many of his works, whether short stories or novels.
ReplyDeleteI take from the quote that we can learn to value or see the good in everyday life.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I think that the topic of "company in the quotidian" is very close to me and it is something that I enjoy a lot
ReplyDeletevery interesting topic, in general, intertextuality turns out to be something very striking, and it becomes even more amazing when one is able to recognize all the references and where they come from specifically.
ReplyDeletethat topic feels like "find the good things out of the situation no matter what" in this case the quotidian or the everyday stuff
ReplyDeleteI really like intertextuality, because identifying those references and understanding them is something extremely fun and enjoyable to read.
ReplyDeletetogether with my colleagues, I think that intertextuality is a very entertaining topic, many times I have read books and watched movies where there is intertextuality and it is something very cool.
ReplyDeletei agree that your critical is very interesting, i also tought that hemingway was a good novelist
ReplyDeleteI would like to read "for whom the bell tolls" by Hemingway
ReplyDeleteI don't have idea about poetry, but its something I want learn more
ReplyDeleteInteresting post!
ReplyDeleteI read this post and I think it's very interesting!!
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