English Blindness and Sight pt.2
Empire state building was completed in what year?
1931
How does Nunez end up in the country of the blind?
Falls and slips of cliff
what question is Helen Keller answering in her letter?
Helen Keller is answering the question about what she thought her trip to the top of the Empire State Building.
Who accompanies her to the top of the Empire State Building?
Helen Keller was accompanied by her blind friend and either a guide or many guides.
On His Blindness was wrote by
Jorge Luis Borges
According to Keller, how does a Frenchman describes the way Americans imagine themselves?
The Frenchman describes Americans as imaging themselves as demigods, or gods. He says tis because only gods never tire of extraordinary things, such as the Empire State Building.
Helen Keller is writing to her friend about what?
The empire state building
Famous play and movie on the life of Helen Keller
The miracle worker
The Blind Seer of Ambon was written by
W.S. Merwin who had sight but became blind
H.G. Wells most famous work was...
War of the Worlds
"On his Blindness" the author misses...
a human face
"The blind Seer of Ambon" as both a poet and a...
botanist
A false belief defines
delusion
Nunez believes he can _______ when he first arrives to the Country of the blind
dominate over inhabitants of the valley
THE BLIND SEER OF AMBON: what happens to the speaker's house
earthquake destroys it
"fundamental or basic to nature of something"
elemental
background on history of the country of the blind represents...
exposition
The speaker in the poem "Blind"...
has regained her sight
Keller saw blindness as a way to bring out...
her deeper vision
example of elemental?
human heart
The Country of the Blind is located...
in the Andes Mt.
"Not logical or understandable"
incoherent
Another word for unbeatable
indomitable
How do the people who live in the country of the blind lose their sight?
lost sight because of disease
"emitting light"
luminous
comparison not using like or as
metaphor
What unusual qualities does Nunez notice about the villagers houses?
no windows...dark
What symbolic meaning does Keller find in the Empire State Building?
poetry- mysticism- inspiration
How do the villagers regard Nunez's ability to see and what do they propose to do to him as a result?
propose to remove his eyes so his thoughts aren't hindered by "sight"
BLIND- according to the speaker, how does the poem's main character gain the sense of sight
received a medical operation to restore her sight after having childhood blindness
Nunez decision to leave the valley represents...
resolution
dominating
rising over towering over
BLIND - After she regains her sight, what does she find miss from the world?
she likes not seeing better and misses her ignorance because it was more paradise like
perplexity
state of being confused or uncertain
ON HIS BLINDNESS: Having lost sight, what does the speaker still have
the ability to write poetry or poems
Nunez main conflict with the people of the Country of the Blind was...
they don't believe he can see
"To rise above"
transcend
unconquerable
unable to be conquered, defeated
THE BLIND SEER OF AMBON: whom does the speaker lose?
wife, daughter, sight, studies
Fatima Naoot
wrote Blind was an archiect