1. For this class, we will continue reading the preface from Walt Whitman's  Leaves of Grass  (1855) - please, try your hand at reading closely and affectively this excerpt: pp. 2734-2735: From the paragraph that starts "The art of art" to the end of next paragraph "and makes one"                                               Andrew Wyeth, "Christina's World" (1948) 2. For a poem or excerpt analysis, either in the above prompt or in the following (poems by Edgar Allan Poe), please consider the following guidelines of a close (and affective) reading: pay attention to tone, prosody, semantic networks, significance/effect of rhetoric devices - that is, language - but also, how language makes it thrust at the world and gets entangled with it, for instance: what nature language conceives and how it conceives it?  If you care more for any of the followin...

1. For this class, we will continue reading the preface from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1855) - please, try your hand at reading closely and affectively this excerpt: pp. 2734-2735: From the paragraph that starts "The art of art" to the end of next paragraph "and makes one"                                               Andrew Wyeth, "Christina's World" (1948) 2. For a poem or excerpt analysis, either in the above prompt or in the following (poems by Edgar Allan Poe), please consider the following guidelines of a close (and affective) reading: pay attention to tone, prosody, semantic networks, significance/effect of rhetoric devices - that is, language - but also, how language makes it thrust at the world and gets entangled with it, for instance: what nature language conceives and how it conceives it?  If you care more for any of the following poems by Edgar A...

  These are the reading prompts for you to comment on the texts for this week (with lovely pic of Margarida in Walden pond at the bottom!). You can choose one of the questions, or weave more than one into a commentary. 1. Lawrence Buell, in the intro to  The Environmental Imagination  (1999), refers to "literature's capacity for articulating the non-human environment" (10). Do Emerson and (or) Thoreau achieve these goals? In what (different) ways? 2. Buell also posits, in pp. 7-8, four ingredients that should comprise the more ecocentric texts... Can you pick up from the  Walden  excerpts parts that exemplify such ingredients, and briefly analyse them? 3. Write a short text analysis of the passage, on pp. 2127-28, that begins "The whole bank, which is from twenty to forty feet high" and ends with "we may turn over a new leaf at last".