‘One
day when I was twenty-three or twenty-four this sentence seemed to form
in my head, without my willing it, much as sentences form when we are
half-asleep, ‘Hammer your thoughts into unity’.
For days I could think of nothing else and for years I tested all I did
by that sentence [...]” William Butler Yeats (cited in Frank Tuohy, Yeats,
1976, p.51 )
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E379S ASSIGNMENT
all page nos. refer to the course anthology
J= Journal Due; LR=Learning Record Due; C = Class Presentation Due; Project Due; R= Responses to Projects Due; I=In-class writing project; G = Graded Discussion
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Nov 23 J Only Connect: Hammer Your Thoughts into Unity
Up till now in the course we have often focused on various details. That approach is sometimes called stofftrieb. Now we will turn more consciously to formtrieb: the idea of unity in the variety. We will consider how each medium communicates the idea of the whole which has no truly isolated or entirely individual parts, only local symptoms or manifestations. This idea has been variously described as a web of mutual interdependency, or a special harmonious unity, balance, or equilibrium achieved in an ecosystem not by leveling the forces of diversity but by promoting them.
- read
- 759 Yeats, “Hammer Your Thoughts”
- 760 Bump, Dualism
- 380A-380B Hopkins, “Pied Beauty”
- 761-2 Browning, “Two in the Campagna”
- 763 Bump, Dualism
- 764-768 Burch, "Vocabularies of Nature"
- 769 Alan Watts, Introduction
- 770-776 Alan Watts,"The World is Your Body"
- 777-781 Gary Snyder, "Poetry and the Primitive"
- 782 Gary Snyder, Introduction
- review
- 71-9 Dass, “The Witness”
- 80-1 from Wild Mind
- 82 from Writing the Natural Way
- 83 Coherence
- 84 Some Useful Transitional Expressions
- 414-419 Darwin, on the Great Tree, in The Origin of Species
- 420 “The Tree of Life”
- 492 Taniguchi, "The spirit of the garden"
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- Writing Assignment Due Dates
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Paris Review: How much rewriting do you do?
Hemingway: It depends. I rewrote the ending to A Farewell To Arms, the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied.
Paris Review: Was there some technical problem there? What was it that stumped you?
Hemingway: Getting the words right
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note changes in writing assignment due dates - Nov 30 P2B due: Project instructions
- Dec 2 LR Final Due LR instructions
- Dec. 8 10:30-12 Portfolios Due. Portfolio instructions.
