Study Guide for Final -- pt. 2 -- EN 190 -- Summer II 2012

 Above is Edgar Degas' "At the Races" (1877-1880).  Below are pictures of Detroit in the 1940s.

 This week's readings include the following:

Below are links we looked at in class today, starting with Allen Ginsberg's "A Supermarket in California":

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15306

Walt Whitman's "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" is here:

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20006

Sherman Alexie wrote "Defending Walt Whitman":

http://www.bpj.org/poems/alexie_whitman.html

Let's look at Shakespeare's Sonnet #73:

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15844

We'll conclude with Philip Levine's "M. Degas..."

http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/poems/levine/m._degas_teaches_art_and_science_at_durfee_intermediate_school--detroit1942.php

You may find this blog entry to be interesting: 

http://edwardbyrne.blogspot.com/2008/07/edgar-degas-and-philip-levine.html

But be sure to scroll down to the entry for July 19, 2008.

This links to part of a literary map of Detroit:

http://www.marygrove.edu/academics/institutes/institute-for-detroit-studies/literary-map-of-detroit/item/7-durfee-middle-school.html

The translations we looked at follow:

Let's start with Petrarch:

A.S. Kline's translation of Sonnet 3 is here, together with Petrarch's original and the MP3 of Moro Silo reading it:

http://petrarch.petersadlon.com/canzoniere.html?poem=3

Mark Musa's translation is here:

http://thepoetryplace.wordpress.com/2011/08/26/renaissance-sonnets-for-the-beloved/

Next we looked at Sonnet 140.  Again, we will start with Kline's translation and the original:

http://petrarch.petersadlon.com/canzoniere.html?poem=140

The literal translation by Patrick Cruttwell is below:

http://www.sonnets.org/petrarch.htm

See this link for the version by Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542):

http://www.sonnets.org/wyatt.htm#002

The translation by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911) is actually of Sonnet 294.  Again, we'll start with Kline's translation and the original:

http://petrarch.petersadlon.com/canzoniere.html?poem=294

Higginson's version is here:

http://www.sonnets.org/petrarch.htm#010

We'll finish with A.M. Juster (1956-).

http://www.amjuster.com/poem14.html

http://petrarch.petersadlon.com/canzoniere.html?poem=14

On to Li Bai's "Drinking Alone With the Moon."

We'll start with Ezra Pound's translation:

http://poetry.about.com/od/poemsbytitled/l/bllipodrinkingalone.htm

Note that he did not know Chinese although he popularized Chinese poetry and used it as a predecessor to modern poetry.

Then we'll move on to linguist Arthur Waley's version:

http://people.zeelandnet.nl/henklensen/libai-waley.htm

Stephen Owen's translation is more recent:

http://people.zeelandnet.nl/henklensen/libai-owen.htm

Vikram Seth's translation was the last we looked at:

http://people.zeelandnet.nl/henklensen/libai-seth.htm

But I would like to include another by Xu Yuanchong:

http://people.zeelandnet.nl/henklensen/libai-xu.htm

The last version will not be on the test, but I think that you may enjoy reading it, too.

Presentations:

Sharon Ossi -- white elephants

Yuehshen Huang -- manga

Adrian Watson -- faces of the 1960s

Renee Rodriguez and Chau Nguyen -- Koji Suzuki

Melissa Mittleman and Sandrine Mbonwo -- NYC in the 1940s

Gizachew Elcho -- Tsegaye Gebre Medhin

Joel Feussi -- The Fables of LaFontaine