ENGL102 Study Guide - Final Guide: Racialization, Quatrain, Celebrity Culture
30 Jun 2018
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1. Title: What Would Restitution and Regeneration Look Like From the Point of View of Water!
Author: Rita Wong!
Genre: Non-fiction, Prose!
Form: Essay!
Theme:
Narrative Voice: First person!
Persona: Author!
Tone: Criticizing government’s actions of damaging lands and watersheds important to the
Indigenous.
Paratext:!
Rhetoric(Ethos/Pathos/Logos): Significant !
Overview:!
-Talks about how how important a role water and the settlements near water are for the
Indigenous Peoples. !
-How the Canadian government is destroying lands that were once owned by the Indigenous,
that shaped their lives and how adversely this is affecting not only the Inidegenous but also
other citizens because Indigenous teachings are valid for them too. !
-Canadian government’s treatment of the Indigenous - Residential schools, PM Stephen
Harper’s apology followed by statement saying “no history of colonialism”!
-Assimilation: Inidegnous kids i foster care forcefully !
-Water symbolic: Watersheds treated badly = Indigenous treated badly !
-Conclusion: How just Canada is to the Indigenous. How democratic it is !
2. Title: Declaration Of Intent
Author: Rita Wong
Genre: Poem
Form:
Theme: Criticizing the destruction of water bodies which are important to the Indigenous and
hoping for a solution taking knowledge from the characteristics of water/water bodies !
Narrative Voice: first person
Persona: author
Tone: Declarative, assertive, determined, focused.
Paratext: “Water is unstoppable” - Wes Nahanee, Wave.#
$ - No capitalization (not even I), no punctuation after lines#
$ - flow of water, no pause, never-ending!
Overview:
-Beginning with colonial borders: Indigenous reference !
-What we learn from water/watersheds !
-problem-solution !
-i to we !
-Trying to influence audience !
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3. Title: One day I wrote her name upon the strand
Author: Edmund Spenser!
Genre: Poem
Form: Sonnet#
$3 Quatrains and a couplet
Theme: Immortality/ Love!
Narrative Voice: First person to Third person to First person
Persona: Not the author
Tone: Persona is showing his love. His lover is chastising and is more realistic
Paratext: None!
Overview:
-First quatrain: Imagery of writing name on the sand and being washed away!
-Second Quatrain: Lover chastises. Says she is mortal. #
Rhythmic variation in line 5. “Vain man” Spondee!
-Third Quatrain: Persona says his lover’s existence and their relationship will be immortalized
through this poem. #
Name: Synecdoche!
-Couplet: Final thought. Theme summed up. Their love is immortal. !
Confusion: Softer sounds are assurance. Which are the softer sounds? Are they alliterations? !
Which alliterations are assertive? !
Title: In this strange labyrinth how shall I turn
Author: Lady Mary Wroth
Genre: Poem
Form: English Sonnet (3 Quatrains & a couplet)
Theme: Confusion & struggle with love/life !
Allusion: Theseus and Minotaur#
$ “In the myth, Theseus travels through the maze with Ariadne’s thread as a guide.
Though the thread leads Theseus through the labyrinth safely, the speaker struggles to decide
whether she is going to take the thread of love and risk the fall.” #
Rhyme Scheme: English but ABAB BABA CDCD EE!
Narrative Voice: First person
Persona: Not author.
Tone: Indecision!
Overview:
-Labyrinth: Metaphor for love & life!
-Labyrinth: Both contextual and cultural symbol!
-First Quatrain: Confusion like in a maze!
-Second Quatrain: Still assessing options but doesn’t want to lose courage!
-Third Quatrain: Determined to take a decision but hasn’t taken decision yet !
-Couplet: Shift from entrapnt to clarity or a decision to keep going forward#
* Shift/Turn with “Yet”#
* Enjambment- Speed up, make decision, now firm. #
* Slant rhyme: move & love#
* Thread of love - allusion +metaphor !
-Within the structured poem she uses enjambment to make us feel off guard#
This insinuates restlessness and disorientation even for the reader. !
-Confusion: Fortunes Kiss - personification and line #
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Document Summary
Title: what would restitution and regeneration look like from the point of view of water. Tone: criticizing government"s actions of damaging lands and watersheds important to the. Talks about how how important a role water and the settlements near water are for the. Canadian government"s treatment of the indigenous - residential schools, pm stephen. Harper"s apology followed by statement saying no history of colonialism . Assimilation: inidegnous kids i foster care forcefully. Water symbolic: watersheds treated badly = indigenous treated badly. Conclusion: how just canada is to the indigenous. How democratic it is: title: declaration of intent. Theme: criticizing the destruction of water bodies which are important to the indigenous and hoping for a solution taking knowledge from the characteristics of water/water bodies. Paratext: water is unstoppable - wes nahanee, wave. No capitalization (not even i), no punctuation after lines. 3 quatrains and a couplet: title: one day i wrote her name upon the strand.
