Please trade your Cut-Up assignment with a partner. On your partner's text please identify (note: obviously, I know that these texts will be somewhat incoherent; so if a persona or other details are not clear please use your power of aesthetic interpretation and make it up):
- The Pentad - Who, Why, Where, When, To Whom, What, How (please be thorough: see below for further details)
- Persona - Do you think the persona depicted is of a different or same cultural perspective as the producer of the text?
- If speaking in the perspective of another: please evaluate how well Alcoff's 4 steps for speaking for others were achieved)
- Any literary devices such as similes, metaphor, hyperbole, understatement, personification, apostrophe, allusions
- Mode of Aesthetic Communication: Lyric, Dramatic or Epic?
- Please post the text and your analysis on the blog by class on Thursday
- Be prepared to read the text you analyzed performing within your own interpretation of your analysis on Thursday.
More on the Pentad:
- Agent: Who?
- Physical - not just static, but in motion. How do they move/
- Demographic characteristics: Age, sex, nationality, education, religion, race, socioeconomic status, politics, etc?
- Attitudes - this is always changing, because it is based on experience
- Disposition/sense of morality
- Are we supposed to sympathize with the speaker, or is the use of the persona ironic (as in the "Westminster Abbey" example in the book, p. 66)
- Purpose: Why?
- Personal versus culturally/socially influenced motives
- Scene: Where? When? To Whom?
- This is where relationship to audience comes in (open, closed, related to the Mode of communication)
- Physical/temporal setting: both space and time. Perhaps these two factors are incongruent?
- Act: What?
- Action
- Text
- Subtext - Again, "Westminster Abbey" poem give a good example of a subtext incongruent with the actual text
- Agency: How?
- What are the techniques the persona uses to convey his or her message?
- Formal/informal?
- Style
- What is the structure: monologue, sonnet, folktale, conversation, etc.?
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ReplyDeletePentad:
Who?: A man who is upset with his girlfriend.
Purpose: He is very frustrated by her bossing him around and always having to be right.
Where when: He is venting, probably to a friend, after he stormed out of an argument
What: he is angrily venting to a friend
How?: it is a bit sporatic and freestyled because he is angry and a lot of thoughts are running through his head, so fast that words can't keep up so it seems a bit jumbled.