INDG 401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Leonard Cohen
9 Jun 2018
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ENGL 409, Lecture March 22, 2018
Death of a Lady’ Man cont.
- The word “authenticity”
- What does it mean in relation into Cohen?
- Keep this in mind and think of uses of that word
- Authenticity is different from the word sincerity
- Not making any claims about truth-telling in a given work
- Sincerity has a great deal more to do with truth-telling
o More moral concern
- Make sure to keep the two terms distinct
“The Beatle”
- Speaker who makes various autobiographical Cohen references
- Style of Book of Mercy strongly anticipated
o Tone
o Language of comfort for anguish
o Keep this in mind for book of mercy (for following Thursday)
- Godlike speaker
o Haven’t had this speaker before
o Claims to have created the world for you
o To have recognized you
o To be in a particular state of spiritual anguish
o Claims this state is the state they want you to be in
- Lose all names for yourself before you come a creature for the creator
- Whatever mercy this creature has to dispense has to do with both sides
o Creature/creator relationship
- God is also aware of your shifting internal state
o Also your tendency to move toward vacuous, judgemental, self-interested
positions and states
- 10 lines down
o “Have you tired of my mercy? Have you wept enough?...”
o “Have you seized an image of me?”
o Some disruption in the creature/creator relationship
- The Beetle is on the one hand a kind of pet that God has given the prisoner like you for
comfort, but also is the creature is to the creator
o “You are the beetle I do not crush….”
- Creator of suffering you has given you a room
- The word “stanza” is Italian for room
o Poems made up of rooms
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Document Summary
Keep this in mind and think of uses of that word. Authenticity is different from the word sincerity. Not making any claims about truth-telling in a given work. Sincerity has a great deal more to do with truth-telling: more moral concern. Make sure to keep the two terms distinct. Speaker who makes various autobiographical cohen references. Style of book of mercy strongly anticipated: tone, language of comfort for anguish, keep this in mind for book of mercy (for following thursday) Lose all names for yourself before you come a creature for the creator. Whatever mercy this creature has to dispense has to do with both sides: creature/creator relationship. God is also aware of your shifting internal state: also your tendency to move toward vacuous, judgemental, self-interested positions and states. Have you wept enough? : have you seized an image of me? , some disruption in the creature/creator relationship. Creator of suffering you has given you a room.
