Remember: we won’t meet in-class on Tuesday, June 25.  We will meet in class on Thursday, June 27 at 9 a.m.

For Thursday, you’ll want to complete the following:

For Wed. at 9 a.m.: Read Eliot’s “The Waste Land.”  As you read it, annotate it.  You’ll want to make at least two digital annotation for each section of the poem.  Don’t use the annotations to define or identify things.  Instead, use your annotations to keep track of motifs or patterns or images in the poem.  I.e. use the annotations to track an image or formal element across all five sections of Eliot’s poem.

For Wed. at 9 a.m.: Take a look at our collection of radical poetry.  These poems were written in the 1930s, during the “Great Depression.”  Here, you want to make at least five annotations across the whole collection.  One thing I’m interested in: how do these poems respond to/develop/reject the typical elements of modernism that we’ve noted so far and that you’ll see in “The Wast Land.”

For Thursday, June 27: head over to the 1913 Armory Show!  Browse through the galleries.  As you browse, collect three pieces of art that seem to reflect the modernist poetry (Williams, Pound, Stein, Eliot) that we’re reading.  Print out the images of each of these works.  For each curated piece of art, write no more than 500 words explaining how this piece connects to the poems we’ve read.  (You can type this or write it in legible longhand.)  Staple the whole thing together and bring it to class.

Enjoy!