English Final

"Everybody has some choice, mother. The poorest girl alive may not be able to choose between being Queen of England or Principal of Newnham; but she can choose between ragpicking and flower-selling, according to her taste. People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them"

Bernard Shaw- Mrs. Warren's Profession Word choice, repetition, Genre-Play, Play of Ideas=using a plot and characters of a drama to think of issues in the world hard philosophical thoughts, Classic idea of how to make your own life and circumstances don't determine you. Wollstonecraft idea. Modernity- you can have a break from what comes before you. Conflict between Vivie and Mrs. Warren shown by the set up of the play dynamic shows the break between inheritance.

"I brought you up well, didn't I, dearie? V= you did. M.W= And you'll be good to your poor old mother for it, won't you? V=I will dear. Good night. M.W=Blessings on my own dearie darling! A mother's blessing"

Bernard Shaw- Mrs. Warren's Profession Genre-Play, Courtesan Play--Former beautiful prostitutes on brink of death and trying to hide their past and either die or former lovers "save" them- Villains or beauties melodramatic play are enticing but doesn't let us go there- normally would be end of the play but then it is just the beginning of it. The real ending is woman working and dismissing marriage and mother- flips the typical play plot in ending in tragedy or marriage. Shaw says Courtesan plays are dishonest- doesn't want them beautiful or villain, but instead puts her in economic setting where she makes decisions

"The violence of beast on beast is read as natural law, but upright man seeks his divinity by inflicting pain"... "The gorilla wrestles with the superman. I who am poisoned with the blood of both"..."The drunken officer of British rule, how choose between this Africa and the English tongue I love? Betray them both, or give back what they give? HOw can I face such slaughter and be cool? How can I turn from Africa and live?"

Derek Walcott- A Far Cry From Africa rhetorical questions, metaphors, doubleness- title Man intrudes on the man by inflicting pain- to be human is to be violent by being higher and inflicting pain below- colonizing man -British man stands for the human- colonization inflicts pain- -Makes Africa seem beast like -Human subject acting in the middle- but Walcott is troubling what is human -Poet puts himself between beast and man- poet as a Caribbean is both African and English -Speaking in English but decent of African- how can you choose -Can't be a tribute to Freedom fighters because it is written in English- so he just gives us endless questions-

"She ought to be thinking about her life, about herself. But she did not. Or perhaps she could not. As soon as she forced her mind to think about Susan (For what else did she want to be alone for?) it skipped off to thoughts of butter or school or clothes. Or it thought of Mrs. Parkes. She realized that she sat listening for the movements of the cleaning woman, following her every turn,bend, thought... Yet she did not give a damn what Mrs. Parkes did, or if she did it at all. yet she could not prevent herself from being conscious of her, every minute."

Doris Lessing- To Room 19 Pronouns, word choice. Can't think about the self. The self has multiple things that define it. The isolated self is no longer an option. Make new world on reason, but when you try to do that when your world is connected to other people something gets sacrificed

"Their love for each other? Well, that was nearest it. If this wasn't a centre, what was? Yes, it was around this point, their love, that the whole extraordinary structure revolved. For extraordinary it certainly was. Both Susan and Matthew had moments of thinking so, of looking in secret disbelieve at this thing they had reacted: Marriage, four children, big house, garden, char-women, friends cars... and this thing, this entity, all of it had come into existence been blown into being out of nowhere because Susan loved Matthew and Mathew loved Susan. Extraordinary. So that was the central point, the wellspring"

Doris Lessing- To Room Nineteen punctuation, word choice. Between the two of them- in even numbered groups there is no center. The center is the relationship between the two- a moving back and forth- impossible to be alone and the idea of the isolated subject is gone

"Don't chop your stuff into separate iambs, Don't make each line stop dead at the end, and then begin every next line with a heave. Let the beginning of the next line catch the rise of the rhythm wave, unless you want a definite longish pause. In short, behave as a musician, a good musician, when dealing with that phase of your art which has exact parallels in music. The same laws govern, and you are bound by no others.

Ezra Pound- A Few Don'ts by an Imagiste genre -Directed towards the future- a set of words that seeks to change the way things are done -Started as political genre -Call for new rules to make art- Break from the past

"I don't know how it is best to put this thing down- whether it would be better to try and tell the story from the beginning, as if it were a story; or whether to tell it from this distance of time, as it reached me from the lips of Leonora or from those of Edward himself"

Ford Madox Ford- The Good Soldier Having trouble how to tell a story and author gets us thinking about important question in the novel. How do you rethink the chronologic in novel and how reliable and stable it is - Unreliable just like the self

Supposing that yo should come upon us, sitting together at one of the little tables in from of the club house, let us say at Homburg, tkaing tea of an afternoon and watching the miniature gold, you would have said that, s human affairs go we were an extraordinarily safe castle. we were, if you will, one of those tall ships with the white sails, upon blue sea, one of those things that seem the proudest and the safest of all the beautiful and safe things that God as permitted the mind of men to frame .Where better could one take refuge?... If for nine years I have possessed a goodly apple that is rotten at the core and discovered its rottenness only in nine years and six months less four days, ins't it true to say that for nine years I possessed a goodly apple?"

Ford Madox Ford- The Good Soldier Metaphor, Couples related to castle, then a dance, prison, rotten apple -But then it can't be an apple because that wouldn't work -Can't find a metaphor -Multiple images being able to describe the same event- impressionist- Instability of the "I"

"For all that time, I was just a male sick nurse. And what chance had I against those three hardened gamblers who were all in league to conceal their hands from me? What earthly chance? They were three to one- and they made me happy. On God, they made me so happy that I doubt if even paradise, that shall smooth out all temporal wrongs, shall ever give me the like. And what could they have done, better, or what could they have done that could have been worse? I don't know... And the immense plain is the hand of God, stretching out for miles and miles, with great spaces above it and below it. And they are in the sight of God, and it is Florence that is alone..."

Ford Madox Ford- The Good Solider Allegory, Metaphor Three against one and then turns into 2 against one- Everyone is constantly changing positions. Shifting patterns of relationships is what structures this narrative- Never gives us stable couples- you can be one or three but never two Why so many unstable groups Allegory for unstably international relations around time of WWI- constantly shifting of international powers

"So here I am very much where I started 13 years ago. I am the attendant, not he husband, of a beautiful girl who pays no attention to me. I am estranged from Leonora, who married Rodney Bayham in my absence and went to live at Bayham... Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has the wrong thing. Perhaps you can make head or tail of it; it is beyond me."

Ford Madox Ford- The Good Solider Mimetic Desire, Dowell all of a sudden showing he's jealous of Leonora- didn't want her until Robert wants her. Same with Nancy- No one wanted her until Edward wanted her- not wanting any particular women but just following Edward and wanting to be like him. "Why can't people have what they want" same irony with mimetic desire, there is enough but everyone wants same thing -Competitive nature of desire Decentered self- I that can't trust its own senses or act purposefully and have straightforward desire

"My name is Kathy H. I'm 31 years old, and I've been a carer now for over 11 years, That sounds long enough, I know, but actually they want me to go on for another 8 months, until the end of this year. That'll make it almost exactly 12 years. Not I know my being a carer so long isn't necessarily because they think I"m fantastic at what I do. There are some really good carers who've been told to stop after just two or three years. And I can think of one carer at least who went on for all of 14 years despite being a complete waste of space. So i'm not trying to boast.... I've developed an instinct around donors. I know when to hang around and comfort them, when to leave them to themselves; when to listen to everything they have to say, and when just to shrug and tell them to snap out of it"

Kazuo Ishiguro- Never Let Me Go -Unspecified "they" may think that it would be the donor, but not named-"My" donor gives it possesses that they are her -Wants to be normal, but also wants to stand out- exceeding a norm and how should she build a relationship between us and that norm -Emotions are classified- she gets it to a classified standard -Suspense- you are getting it from the first paragraph not defining these important terms -Talking as if you know what she is taking about it, makes you feel like you are not the -Time -Can't develop instinct

"Then there were those question about why we wanted to track down our models at all. one big idea behind finding your model was that when you did, you'd glimpse your futures.... you'd see something of what your life held in store.

Kazuo Ishiguro- Never Let Me Go Complex notion of the self where we come from holds who we are and what is to come- if you see who you are copied from you can know your future and your deep self- The self is determined to where you come from- Self is both connected and broken from the past (models) -Past and Future and authenticity is bound up in notion where we come from

"When I watched you dancing that day, I saw something else. I saw a new world coming rapidly. More scientific, efficient, yet. More cures for the old sicknesses. very good. But a harsh, cruel world. And I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old kind world one that she knew in her heart could not remain and she was holding it and pleading never to let her go. that is what I saw. It wasn't really you, what you were doing, I know that. But I saw you and it broke my heart. And I've never forgotten.... Poor creatures. i wish I could help you. But now you're by yourselves."

Kazuo Ishiguro- Never Let Me Go Pronouns, word choice, uncanny, old world a kind world but the new world is harsh and cold. Where do we make the break and keep from the past instead of throw it away and engage in the harsh innovative new world -Characters don't have parents- literal break from the past and tradition -How do you shape someone who doesn't come from intimate interactions and values?

But that had been Miss Lucy's point exactly. We'd been "told and not told" and she'd put it. A few years ago, when Tommy and I were going over it all again, and I reminded him of Miss Lucy's told and not told, Idea he came up with a theory. Tommy thought it possible the guardians had, throughout all our years at Hailsham, timed very carefully and deliberately everything they told us, so that we were always just too young to understand properly the latest piece of information. but of course we'd take it in at some level, so that before long all this stuff was there in our heads without us ever having examined it properly.... In other words, its' possible the guardians managed to smuggle into ou heads a lot of the basic facts about our futures"

Kazuo Ishiguro- Never Let Me Go Suspense, Fabula and Sjuzhet, Bildungsroman Can trust her narration but she doesn't give us a straight forward explanation from the beginning- Novel educates us the same way that the characters in the novel learn. Knowledge itself is like a clone- building thing on what we already know to expand the things that we do not know

"The tape disappeared a couple months after the incident with Madame. I never linked the two events at the time and I've no reason to link them now. I was in the dorm one night, just before lights-out, and was rummaging throug my collection chest to pass the time until the others came back from the bathroom. Its odd but wen it first dawned on me the tape wasn't there anymore, my math thought was I mustn't give away how manicked I was.... But the very fact that we had such needs would have felt wrong to us at the time- like somehow we were letting the side dow."

Kazuo Ishiguro- Never Let Me Go -Bildungsroman Full of secrets- world structures around secrecy- Kathy now has a secret -Telling us about her own privacy but then does it by saying that everyone else does it- switching pronouns and turning the "I" into a larger "We" -No reason to link them together, but the text is linking them together- relationship between author and narrator- the addressing of not linking it, actually links it together -Pretense of not having emotion in order to normalize emotion- hid the fact that she feels more strongly than she should -She is an individual because she has something to hide, but everyone else is hiding something as well- you are most free when most constrained. The self conforming to norms to fit into society doesn't want to draw attention to herself. Like Jane Eyre.

Even Ruth looked daunted that sunny day the minibus dropped us in front of the farmhouse, circled round the little pond and disappeared up the slope. We could see the hills in the distance that reminded us of the ones in the distance at Hailsham, but they seemed to us oddly crooked, like when you draw a picture of a friend and it's almost right but not quite, and the face on the sheet give you the creeps"

Kazuo Ishiguro- Never Let Me Go Uncanny=A term used for strange feeling you get when you are not sure when something is dead or alive; Experiences of radical uncertainty, Pronouns Close but just unfamiliar enough to give you a sense of wrongness. This instance of uncanny is reflective of our takes of the clones. Are they human or not- they are strangely close but not quite right. Post-human

"Thinking back now, I can see we were just at that age when we knew a few things about ourselves- about who we were, how we were different from our guardians, from the people outside-but hadn't yet understood what any of it meant. I'm sure somewhere in your childhood, you too had an experience like ours that day; similar if not in the actual details, then inside in the feelings.... The first time you glimpse yourself through the eyes of a person like that, it's a cold moment. It's like walking past a mirror you've walked past every day of your life, and suddenly it shows you something else, something troubling and strange"

Kazuo Ishiguro- Never Let Me Go pronouns, uncanny, suspense See herself through eyes of someone else- reverse of normal identification- sees herself by the eyes of the normal so its makes yourself look strange "YOU"- how you view the clones- relate to them but how?

Thus one of the most humiliating experiences was to be caught speaking in Gikuyu in the vicinity of the school. The culprit was given corporal punishment- three to five strokes of the cane on bare buttocks- or was made to carry a metal plate around the neck with inscriptions such as I AM STUPID or I AM A DONKEY. Sometimes the culprits were fined money they could hardly afford. And how did the teacher catch the culprits? A button was initially given to one pupil who was supposed to hand it over to whoever was caught speaking his mother tongue. Whoever had the button at the end of the day would sign who had given it to him and the ensuing process would bring out all the culprits of the day. Thus children were turned into witch-hunters and in the process were being taught the lucrative value of being a traitor to one's immediate community.... English became the arts. the sciences, and all the other branches of learning. English became the main determinant of a child's progress up the ladder of formal education."

Ngugi Wa Thiong'o- Decolonising the mind word choice, genre- essay, hybridity - Like Jane Eyre Language and literature is held up as highest reward- Here English cannon is about what destroys community and culture. These values in cannon deculturalize -Value English writers and words but don't want to accept the political experience of the English Language -Separation/Connection- never was part of the culture but connected because he has the values and system

"The line is immaterial. Mr. Worthing, I confess I feel somewhat bewildered by what you have just told me. To be born, or at any rate, bred in a handbag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution. And I presume you know what that unfortunate movement let to?"

Oscar Wilde- The Importance of Being Earnest Non sequitur-a break in logic, absurd or nonsensical conclusion. Comedy of Manners- comedy concerned with etiquette and morals of upper classes

"Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference:

Robert Louis Stevenson- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Grammar- Semicolon, Word choice-father/son, Genre- Science Fiction The use of the words father and son give the idea of traditional inheritance between a father and son; however, a semicolon is separating the two words. A semicolon is used to join to independent clauses so the use of the punctuation shows there is a break in the idea of inheritance- modernity break between two but they are the same person so it shows the double sidedness of subjectivity

"We told the man we could and would make such a scandal out of this as should make his name stink from on end of London to the other. If he had any friends or any credit, we undertook that he should lose them and all the time as we were pitching it in red hot, we were keeping the women off him as best we could, for they were as wild as harpies. I never saw a circle of such hateful faces; and there was the man in the middle with a kind of black, sneering cooling-frightned to, I could see that- but carrying it off, sir, really like Satan, 'If you choose to make capital out of this accident' said he, 'I am naturally helpless. No gentleman but wishes to avoid a scene, says he. 'Name your figure'"

Robert Louis Stevenson- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Suspense, word choice Critique of the British Man-Take women out of picture and then all you have is hypocrisy and cruelty- commit crime and do what they want aside from everyone's well being.

"The night after the funeral, at which he had been sadly affected, Utterson locked the door of his business room, and sitting there by the light of a melancholy candle, drew out and set before him as envelope addressed by the had and sealed with the seal of his dead friend. 'PRIVATE: for the hands of G.J. Utterson ALONE, and in case of his predecease to be destroyed unread' so it was emphatically superscribed; and the lawyer dreaded to behold the contents. 'I have buried one friend today,' he thought: 'what if this should cost me another?' And then he condemned the fear as a disloyalty, and broke the seal. Within there was another enclosure, likewise sealed, and marked upon the cover as 'not to be opened till the death or disappearance of Dr. Henry Jekyll,' Utterson could not trust his eyes. Yes, it was disappearance; here again as in the mad will which he had long ago restored to its author, here again were the idea of a disappearance and the name of Henry Jekyll bracketed But in the will, that idea had sprung from the sinister suggestion of the man Hyde; it was set there with a purpose all to plain and horrible. Written by the hand of Lanyon, what should it mean? A great curiosity came on the trustee to disregard the prohibition and dive at once to the bottom of these mysteries; but professional honor and faith to his dead friend were stringent obligations; and the packet slept in the inmost concern of his private safe"

Robert Louis Stevenson- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Suspense- word choice and Sjuzhet Story becomes figure for subjectivity- keep getting pieces but keep letting you know but need more to get answers- layering of the pieces. Can't read one part until another part longing and desire- teaching us to wait and recognize our own ignorance- Unlike Dr. Jekyll we should suppress or desires

"I am a simple man who decided to act and see for himself, and it is as though I have had several lives. I do not wish to add to these. Some afternoons I walk to the circle with the fountain. I see the dancers but they are separated from me as by glass. Once, when there were rumors of burnings, someone scrawled in white paint on the pavement outside my house; Soul Brother. I understand the words; but I feel, brother to what or to whom? I was once part of the flow, never thinking of myself as a presence. Then I looked in the mirror and decided to be free. All that my freedom as brought me is the knowledge that I have face and have a body, that i must feed this body and clothe this body for a certain number of years. then it will be over."

V.S Naipaul -One Out of Many Pronouns- "this body" not claiming ownership with "my", word choice "Separated", Becomes the modern subject- he acts and is free- only thing you can know when you are separated out is that you have a body- know yourself Wordsworth- lonely and isolation- being a simple person who know and acts for themselves- not a story of progress- movement to America brings him freedom, but freedom isn't exactly a benefit -Classic story of Modern Subjectivity -Looks at the world, looks at himself, and then revises the version of himself- becomes more and more separate through this process of revision

"I am now an American citizen and I live in Washington, capital of the world. Many people, both here and in India, will feel that I have done will. But."

V.S Naipaul- One Out of Many pronouns, punctuation, hybridity remains doubtful about American culture- questioning and think it doesn't mean success- ambivalence of culture. Homelessness- feeling of not belonging- arriving somewhere and it not being yours

"Some of the hubshi were there, playing musical instruments and looking quite happy in their way. There were some Americans sitting about on the grass and the fountain and the kerb. Many of them were in rough, friendly-looking clothes; some were without shoes; and I felt i had been over hasty in condemning the entire race... It was a little bit like a Red Indian dance in a cowboy movie, but they were chanting Sanskrit words in praise of Lord Krishna."

V.S Naipaul- One Out of Many Word choice, comparison, hybridity Comes to united states to find people dressed up as Hindus like himself, but his compares them to the Native American in westerns and seem like a different kind in a movie- nothing authentic- Not a deep originality and deep authenticity- post colonial scene- different cultural bits brought together by empires and then no authentic culture

"But I was falling. Was it idleness and solitude? I was found attractive: I wanted to know why. I began to go to the bathroom of the apartment simply to study my face in the mirror. I cannot easily believe it myself now. but in Bombay a week or a month could pass without my looking in the mirrors; then it wasn't to consider my looks but to check whether the barber had cut off too much hair or whether a pimple was about to burst...I became obsessed with my appearance, with a wish to see myself. It was like an illness. I thought; are you as handsome as that man? I would have to get up and go to the bathroom and look in the mirror?"

V.S Naipaul- One Out of Many comparison, questioning idleness and solitude, - internalize a norm or standard that we judge ourselves against- live in world of images and live in a media culture- point also made in Jane Eyre- Internalize values that come from places other than ourselves- not all societies are structured that way, learned it from American culture

"Now it seemed so ordinary and tired: the roads, the motor cars, the shops, the trees, the careful policemen: so much part of the waste and futility that was our world. There was no longer a mystery. I felt I knew where everybody had come from and where those cars were going. But I also felt that everybody there felt like me, and that was soothing"

V.S Naipaul- One Out of Many magic is going but identification is there- something is shared when you look at others- you are bound to them- Marries AA women and AA call him Soul Brother- then that identification slowly comes to him- the flow doesn't give you identification, but as he goes through those acts he finds identification with others but also isolation- this is migration in itself

"Once my employer had been to me only a presence. I used to tell him then that beside him I was as dirt. It was only a way of talking, one of the courtesies of our languages, but it had something of truth. I meant that he was the man who adventured in the world for me, that I experienced the world through him, that I was content to be a small part of his presence." "Now I found that, without wishing it, I was ceasing to see myself as part of my employer's presence, and beginning at the same time to see him as an outsider might see him, as perhaps the people who came to dinner in the apartment saw him... ; a man who looked as uneasy in Washington as I felt, who acted as cautiously as I had learned to act."

V.S Naipaul- One Out of Many simile, transformation of the pronouns, Here the employer is the subject and the servant is just a part of the employers larger subjectivity- he experiences the world through him- the servant is a small part of a larger subjectivity- he follows, obeys, and trusts, but he does not know the world himself. Helps understand the mindset of people who have been colonized- is it rebellion or is it submissive -Next paragraph down- Here he sees his employer not as the larger subject he is part of but as another subject. Starts seeing equalities between the two and becomes a self- employer doesn't see it the same way, hierarchy doesn't work if the servant doesn't see it the same way

"That woman's day were spend In ignorant good-will, her nights in argument Until her voice grew shrill. What voice more sweet than hers When, young and beautiful, She rode to harriers? This man had kept a school And rode our winged horse; This other his helper and friend was coming into his force; He might have won fame in the end, So sensitive his nature seemed, So daring and sweet his thought. This other man I had dreamed A drunken, vainglorious lout. He had done most bitter wrong, To some who are near my heart, Yet I number him in the song; He too has resigned his part in the causal comedy; He too has been changed in his turn, Transformed utterly: A terrible beauty is born."

William Butler Yeats- Easter 1916 Remembers the people in their ordinariness but then honors them as heroes- "A Terrible Beauty is Born"- it is violent but heroic- the question of if did they die for a reason or not? Foolish or not? Poem sees them as both

"Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice? That is Heaven's part, our part to murmur name upon name, As a mother names her child When sleep at last has come on limbs that had run wild. What is it but nightfall? No, no, not night but death; was it needless death after all? for England may keep faith for all that is done and said. We know their dream; enough to know they dreamed and are dead; and what if excess of love bewildered them till they died? I write it out in a verse- MacDanagh and MacBrinde and Connolly and Pearse now and in time to be wherever green is worn, are changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born"

William Butler Yeats- Easter 1916 Rhetorical Questions, When is sacrifice enough, will it ever end? Is it just about sleep but death, what kind of death is it? Is it needless death? Although the poem is memorializing them but it also doubts and worries about them and the actions -How should artist have an impact on the world? -Role for an artist is to memorialize the people who come and go. A poem can keep their name alive and in our minds. Poem also keeps them as ordinary and people so they don't turn into a monument themselves. Just remember the names and the people- literature helps give shape to history

"I've heard that hysterical women say They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow Of poets that are always gay, For everybody knows or else should know That is nothing drastic is done Aeroplane and Zeppelin will come out, Pitch like King Billy bomb-balls in Until the town lie beaten flat"

William Butler Yeats- Lapis Lazuli Word choice, use of pronouns "I" only shows up twice- first line and then drops out until line. Modernist poem- "I" disappear almost completely- not the center of its investigation or the poem at all. terrifying machinery of WWI refers to them in slang

A sudden blow: the great wings beating still above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed by the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill, he holds her helpless breast upon his breast... And Agamemnon Dead. Being so caught up, so mastered by the brute blood of the air, did she put on his knowledge with his power before the indifferent beak could let her drop?

William Butler Yeats- Leda and the Swan Splitting the lines, word choice and tense, Genre In the moment of her being raped did she take on the knowledge of the gods- The moment of being least powerful is where she launches her impact on the world- Both powerful and powerlessness- moment of being raped and not having power is when she has the most impact on the world Split line 11 into two- rupture in line -And Agamemnon Dead- Sound of "And" -And ripples through the entire line 2 A's, N's and D's Fitting and epic in a short poem but its a sonnet

I will arise and go now, for always night and day, I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey, I hear it in the deep heart's core"

William Butler Yeats- The Lake of Isle on Innisfree Word choice, rhythm, repetition Most of the poem is about the natural beautiful place that is an escape from what the "I" is concerned of, it starts off there. Then a surprise- at the last stanza- the poet is speaking on the pavement in the city- the narrator not in this place at all just thinking of it, but then it is actually in the ugly city setting

"I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade"

William Butler Yeats-The Lake Isle of Innisfree long slow rhythm of the poem, long lines Escape to the natural world far from urban life,

The price seemed reasonable, location indifferent. The landlady swore she lived off premises. Nothing remained but self-confession. Madam, I warned, I hate a wasted journey- I am African"... HOW DARK?.... ARE YOU DARK? OR VERY LIGHT?... Facially I am brunette, but madam you should see the rest of me. Palm of my hand, soles, of my feet are a peroxide blonde. Friction, caused foolishly madam- but sitting down has turned by bottom raven black- one moment madam- sensing her receiver rearing on the thunderclap about my hears madam I pleaded wouldn't you rather see for yourself?

Wole Soyinka- Telephone Conversation Fragmentation, word choice "I can be made up of multiple experiences and parts. When Soyinka physically breaks down the body into multiple pieces, it shows that the subjectivity can be broken down in to multiple pieces as well. Instead of the Romantic "I" focusing solely on the self, the postcolonial "I" takes into consideration the worldly, communal, and social experiences that affect the "I". Expecially in the colonized people. They have both root of their culture, but then the imposed values that shaped their education from the English.