Write a 1-page response (350-400 words) commenting on the following images:“And the trumpet writhed, / broke through the sonorous din, went back and forth / like a lonely soul in a dry silence”“All at one he cried out / that it wasn’t destiny if the world suffered, / if the sunlight wrung out curses” For each of the two images, explain the context in which they are located, comment on the choice of words and the emotions they provoke.
Here are the instructions for our third response paper. This week we read a poem, Pavese’s “The Paper-Smokers.” As you know, poems are generally complex literary texts, in which every word has been chosen by the author with care and every detail is important. For this reason, I’m asking you to work on two of […]