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Contemporary Poets No specific rhyme scheme No meter structure (Free Verse) Narrative, Tells a story Autographical: own life Family/People --- Connection World not always a positive place Nature --- peace Historical period: 1. 911 2. Islamic Palestinian conflict Father: Palestinian Mother: American Grandmother still lives in Palestine BLOOD: "A true Arab..." 1. Catch a fly: Not kill it 2. Watermelon: Faith, believe in healing 3. Give back names she borrowed: give back, exists with nature 4. What does a true Arab do now: lost To fight against stereotype What flag can we wave: lost between activities

3. “Poets often withhold certitude, which can at the same time empower readers to think creatively.” Consider the works of at least two poets you have studied in which ambiguity has enabled readers to reach their own conclusions about meaning and implications. 591 I heard a Fly buzz - when I died - The Stillness in the Room Was like the Stillness in the Air - Between the Heaves of Storm - The Eyes around - had wrung them dry - And Breaths were gathering firm For that last Onset - when the King Be witnessed - in the Room - I willed my Keepsakes - Signed away What portion of me be Assignable - and then it was There interposed a Fly - With Blue - uncertain - stumbling Buzz - Between the light - and me - And then the Windows failed - and then I could not see to see - 340 I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, And Mourners to and fro Kept treading - treading - till it seemed That Sense was breaking through - And when they all were seated, A Service, ...

Select a passage from the concluding chapter of a novel you have chosen to study and show how acting, staging effects and design can combine to make it an effective ending for an audience. 1. Ending : Desiree falls and a troop of butterflies come down from the forest. Rain drops to show Desiree's tragedy. 2. Interpretation : butterflies is hit by the rain drops, they also fall and sticked on the ground and drown to death. 3. Reasons : to show Gods give and Gods take. To show that Desiree's dreams die with her. 4. Symbols : Rain: water, power of gods, pity from the gods. Butterflies: dream 5. The rich hates the rain and does not affected much by it: hates superstition, refuse to believe in gods, their power is so grand that they don't need to depend on them like the peasants. 6. Stage effect : multi transparent projecting films: shows the crowd of the poor , butterflies , and raindrops . 7. Crowd : less actors, shows that Desiree is in the crowd, but they are irrelev...

Focus on: 1. Desiree's own conservative and selfish view 2. Conceptual differences between the rich and the poor 3. Desiree is a boy 4. Gods' conflicts between themselves (as Desiree's inner conflict) What would be like: 1. Desiree is a boy with identity struggle. It singles him out from his community but still he is one of the poor people. 2. Daniel feels werid when Desiree dresses up to attend the ball. Projection: LED Wall: Desiree's journey: moving backgrounds Transparent film: Gods presence Maybe too much, maybe eliminate Gods' presence on stage. Focus more on the realism.

Select a passage from a novel you have chosen to study which deals with despair and euphoria. How might staging, design and acting combine to register  one  of these experiences for an audience? In the end of the novel, Desiree has experienced a despair intrigued by indifference from Daniel, Madame Metheli. This experience of despair is created by numerous of contributions, and this climax of desperation results into the death of Desiree.  The start of the despair is when Desiree was neglected by Daniel because he changes his  favor to Andrea. Since Desiree was put into a small room apart from Daniel, her emotion grows more intense by days. Her emotional instability also reflects on her appearance and her statues: Her nobility and elegance worsen as she became more and more desperate. At a point she became no difference as a peasant, going back to her original status. She was then thrown out of the Beauxhomme hotel. And no one recognizes her as th...

1. Butterflies escaping: wish is fulfilled. Greedy, refuse to wake up from the dream 2. Daniel is getting better, Desiree is getting worse. 3. "what gods give, they sure can take away." 4. Desiree wants to help Asaka and Agwe to go back together 5. Crippled and silent 6. Papa Ge intertwines with Erzulie. 7. Desiree lost the comb 8. Desiree never speaks of marriage