EN266 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Wallace Stevens, Dialectic, Light Pollution
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Sometimes there are flashbacks, but are there flash-forwards? (yes) some things are more complex. Jim is an average person, not a novelist. Correlation between the subject matter and the time/place. First stamped us on barrels of beef beans made for soldiers for. Turned by cartoonists-1860"s and 70"s into visual icon. Patriarchal figure, old white men controlling the world, cult of. Is it an appropriate image (personification) of america? violence, will to be a warrior (recruiting method) Notions of the frontier have been embedded in this. Uncle sam is also an interpretive map. Multi-media- looking at multiple aspects of early 20th century. Anecdote of the jar: by american poet wallace stevens 1919. A sense of bleakness at the end, a bit of tension. Jar= something you preserve food in, and then just let it be for long times to come. Utilitarian object, something to survive, preserves, crucial element (use and value)
