Please choose a specific character, OR a scene, OR a “story” told in Heaney’s play and Rich’s poem cycle, and then compare and reflect on the differences. You may write, for example, on the gender of the main “actors” in both texts, or on the scene or location where most of the action occurs. Is there reconciliation and solidarity at the end of each text?
Make sure that you read the entire poem cycle of Rich’s “Twenty-One Love Poems” before you write this post!
Please watch this video in which Adrienne Rich discusses her process in writing poetry, especially in terms of the way she uses earlier texts, here:Adrienne Rich – ChilePoesía 2001 (Links to an external site.)Minimize Video(2001, c. 8 minutes). You can read the poem to which she refers in the video, “A Long Conversation,” on CANVAS). Then, write a post that discusses how Rich’s comments in the video might be used to understand her references to the Philoctetes story in “I can see myself years back in Sunion.”
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