Intro
Political Struggles
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Yeats Audio Files
Virginia Woolf: A Movie
Mrs. Dalloway on Sparknotes.
James Joyce: Ulysses
Click here to listen to Elliot's "The Burial of the Dead"
Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984
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Questions for discussion:
1. What is the significance of the image above? (from NAEL)
2. After listening to the poems and media recreation, how do the readings make you feel?
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What is the significance of the image above?
ReplyDeleteThat the army was the division between two different sports. (20th century)
1. What is the significance of the image? (from NAEL)
ReplyDeleteMayhap this was an slogan to catch men's attention so they would join the army thinking that it was not everything about shooting and killing but also some kind of "fun". Being a soldier maybe had its benefits. Even though I'm not sure if it meant something like that. I'm wondering about those uniforms, what are those sports?
1. What is the significance of the image above? (from NAEL)
ReplyDeleteI think the significance of the image is to convey people to join to the army; it doesn't matter if a person were a sportman, a poet or something else becuase in the army it's going to be a soldier defending the country.
Maybe the significance of the image was to convey men that the war was not merely a way to kill people, but a way to exercise themselves. When one sees the things like a sport we make the necessary efforts to win.
ReplyDeleteI consider that the meaning that is expressed in this image is that the men who were in the army did not only focus on working in the diverse tasks that they had to do, but they also dedicated part of their time doing different leisure activities like practicing sports such as rugby or tennis.
ReplyDeleteI belive that the meaning of the image is that join to the army is not the only option, because when you had joined you will have some other opportunities like sports and so on. I mean that if man in the past join to the army , they will be soldiers, poets and more that just a soldier.
ReplyDeleteI think that the objective of the picture is to show men that the military life was a multifaceted world in which they could continue having fun while they were serving their country.
ReplyDeleteThe close relationship between Army and Sports, but I'm not pretty sure in which aspect these complement each other.
ReplyDeleteAbout the meaning of the image, I think it means that the members of the Army are not just killers with a rifle, they are gentlemen and sportmen above all; I think that because the picture shows a soldier from the Royal Army (UK Army)with the differents facets, soldier, gentleman and sportman.
ReplyDeleteI think that the image refers that the army is not only a boring job in which you have to do everything in a pre-programed way, the army is a job in which you respect your adversary, you don't underestimate it, just like in an sport you enjoy with your rival playing with your soul. (samuel)
ReplyDeleteSince the 20th century was marked by many wars, maybe it just means than instead of losing your time playing sports that don't benefit anyone, you should fight for your country and your freedom.
ReplyDeleteIn the U.S. at this time, the military has catchy TV spots that make it attractive to people to enlist to "serve" the country. Do you think this is the same concept?
ReplyDeleteI also want you to post in regards to #2
ReplyDeleteyes it is, I think the U.S.Army wanst to sell the same concept, join us and will give you many privileges, yeah right!
ReplyDelete2 question. First of all those tracks from Williams Yeats made feel kind of confused because I had to listen to them many times because the audio was terrible.
ReplyDeleteabout 2 question. In my opinion those tracks sound like if the narrator is telling a dark story or a horror story. also, the tracks made me feel in other time like in middle age or something like that.
ReplyDelete1. I think that the meaning of that picture shows the advantages of the army that were at that time, also to protect their homeland, in addition they could improve their physical abilities and also it shows that everyone had to work for their country as it says there 'isn’t the army all the work'.
ReplyDeleteWhat a funny situation if one answer only one question the others do the same. Anyway.
ReplyDelete2. After listening to the poems and media recreation, how do the readings make you feel?
Make me feel more secure to understand the topics because the listenings were very complicated to understand.
In the U.S. at this time, the military has catchy TV spots that make it attractive to people to enlist to "serve" the country. Do you think this is the same concept?
ReplyDeleteI think that could it be possible because the Army use some psychology tricks to enlist people.By the way, in one simpsons' epidose, the army use a song with a hidden message to enlist people.
gotta love the Simpsons!
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ReplyDelete2. After listening to the poems and media recreation, how do the readings make you feel?
ReplyDeleteWell, I liked yeats's broken dreams. The entonation of the poem was great. I liked the words, they are very fancy. I wish I could speak with words like those. The other I liked was the brief movie of "who's afraid of virginia woolf.. really funny. I liked the part when she asked george if the bottle he smashed was empty. I did not feel anything different, but I do admit that yeats' broken dreams is terrific!
with the picture I think that the army tried to convey people to join the army using the most famouses sports at that time.
ReplyDeleteabout Yeats poem there is a phrase that caugt my attention "Vague memories, nothing but memories." he sais these words with such a melancholy that makes me feel sad and, I think that with this phrase he resumes all the meaning of the poem.
ReplyDelete2. While I was listening the poems and media recreation, I felt as if the people from there were doing something religious like if they were praying.I was scared because of how they did it.
ReplyDeleteAnd after I was with the same idea as they were doing something strange, but it was nice to listen those poems. to know that they were reciting the poems
ReplyDelete2. After listening to the poems and media recreation, how do the readings make you feel?
ReplyDeleteConcerning the audios of Yeats, the feelings that I experienced were of fear and melancholy due to the tone of his voice, it is kind of mysterious. Concerning the media recreation, I do like the way the girl acts, she does it like she is really living that situation, very spontaneous.
Yeats poem made me feel confused at the beginning and kind of moved at the end. He had a very special way of reading poems that lets you see how bond were his feelings in each line.
ReplyDeleteIn the U.S. at this time, the military has catchy TV spots that make it attractive to people to enlist to "serve" the country. Do you think this is the same concept?
ReplyDeleteWell for is the same, they aim of them is to catch people attention no matter what they invent to make it atractive.
2. After listening to the poems and media recreation, how do the readings make you feel?
ReplyDeletein the first video,first of all I feel scary because that men in the video look so gloomy but when listened to what he was saying, I understand that he was deeply concentrated in what he was reading, and all that melancholy and pasion was creepy in a goog way of course.
subsecuently the yeats poem were so interested because I liked that he appreciete every single part of his surrender. I also liked the way he read like singing a song.
Well acording with the first question for me the author wanted show with the image that if men joned to the army it won't be guns and military training rather it will gave them fun through sports or something like that and in U.S. was the same goverments sell the idea that people that "serve" for their country are doing patriotism and in that way they are helping to their country to be a better nation.
ReplyDeleteConcerning with the second question i listened the poem but honestly i didn't understand him one because the video loading very slow, then it was very hard to me understand to Yeats for the way in pronunciation. I felt like he was declaming something very sad and important.
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