{"id":134,"date":"2012-04-07T16:17:24","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T16:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english630sp12\/?p=134"},"modified":"2012-04-07T16:18:34","modified_gmt":"2012-04-07T16:18:34","slug":"for-tuesday-410","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english630sp12\/2012\/04\/07\/for-tuesday-410\/","title":{"rendered":"For Tuesday (4\/10)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/09\/10\/opinion\/10rich.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-135 aligncenter\" title=\"Thomas-Hoepker-911-WTC-controversial-picture\" src=\"http:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english630sp12\/files\/2012\/04\/Thomas-Hoepker-911-WTC-controversial-picture-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english630sp12\/files\/2012\/04\/Thomas-Hoepker-911-WTC-controversial-picture-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english630sp12\/files\/2012\/04\/Thomas-Hoepker-911-WTC-controversial-picture-1024x686.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english630sp12\/files\/2012\/04\/Thomas-Hoepker-911-WTC-controversial-picture.jpg 1701w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We haven&#8217;t quite finished talking about &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitmanarchive.org\/published\/LG\/1891\/poems\/193\">When Lilacs . . . .<\/a>&#8221; \u00a0But, we can already see some of the issues and questions that the poem raises about death, absence, memory, and loss. \u00a0Hopefully, you can already start to see and understand some of the poetic strategies that Whitman deploys to tackle these big issues and questions.<\/p>\n<p>If Whitman&#8217;s poem sets out a poetic strategy for dealing with collective loss and its aftermath, how durable is this strategy? \u00a0Can Whitman&#8217;s poem equip us for confronting similar historical ruptures and disasters?<\/p>\n<p>To begin answering these questions, let&#8217;s compare Whitman&#8217;s elegy and its strategies to contemporary poets&#8217; efforts to reckon poetically with national trauma.<\/p>\n<p>Browse through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/rr\/program\/bib\/911poetry\/\">this online anthology of 9-11 poems<\/a>. \u00a0(The poems are located in the &#8220;Online Resources\/Selected Individual Poems&#8221; of the Library of Congress page.) Find a couple that you think are successful or a couple that seem to speak to &#8220;When Lilacs Last . . ..&#8221; \u00a0Using Whitman as a referent, what kinds of similar and\/or different approaches to collective loss do you see in your selected poems? \u00a0What do these poems help us to see about Whitman&#8217;s poem? \u00a0And what does Whitman&#8217;s poem help us to see about these poems?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We haven&#8217;t quite finished talking about &#8220;When Lilacs . . . .&#8221; \u00a0But, we can already see some of the issues and questions that the poem raises about death, absence, memory, and loss. \u00a0Hopefully, you can already start to see and understand some of the poetic strategies that Whitman deploys to tackle these big issues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2aA0R-2a","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english630sp12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english630sp12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english630sp12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english630sp12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english630sp12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english630sp12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english630sp12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english630sp12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english630sp12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english630sp12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}