"Most great stories of adventure, from The Hobbit to The Seven Pillars of Wisdom come furnished with a map. That's because every story of adventure is in part the story of a landscape, of the interrelationship between human beings (or Hobbits, as the case may be) and topography. Every adventure story is conceivable only with reference to a particular set of geographical features that in each case sets the course, literally, of the tale."-Michael Chabon

Monday, March 7, 2011

March 8

Smoky the Bear Sutra by Gary Snyder

“Wrathful but calm. Austere but Comic. Smokey the Bear will Illuminate those who would help him; but for those who would hinder or slander him...
HE WILL PUT THEM OUT.”-Gary Snyder



Opening Journal:
1-What is your initial reaction to Gary
Synder? (Do you like him? Hate him? Think he’s silly?)
2-How is he different from other poets we have read? (Mary Oliver, Patricia Smith) How could the differences in his style convey differences in his intention of audience?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH-0WLiNLQM

Group 1: 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 2: 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 3: 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?

Homework:

from Having Faith, by Sandra Steingraber p. 929,
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