ENGL 105W Lecture Notes - Consumerism, The Fisher King, Smog
16 Dec 2012
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Retrospective lecture; describing where we started and ended. We are given: awful doing of a moments surrender. Momentary surrender of self in sex (boring, botched sex) Diatambom i have been given the key. Imagery of each individual looking for key to open door. Therefore no sympathy; an incapacity for sympathy in this poem, voices in this poem cannot communicate mean fully with each other. Back to western section ends with i i sat upon the shore fishing with the arid plain behind me . The fisher king shall i set my lands in order? cacophony of western images. Dr. who: sad is what people call happy . Exam question *think about the ending of this poem of what this means to you about utopia. Wasteland : despair, dryness, emptiness, idea of the future. Human emotion extinguished, angels of consumerism, globalization, media influence, capitalist slaves emerge more fully in future world. So much pollution its neither day nor night.
