Lit
What is prose poetry?
Prose that uses poetic devices like alliteration, the turn, diaphoric metaphor, etc.
What us “Sun Stone” by Octavio Paz about? What makes it surreal?
Revolts against Spanish Civil War
Raises love as supreme value
What happened after Borges hit his head and lost consciousness? Where is Borges from?
He wrote like never before and composed his most famous fictions
Argentina
What is a poetic turn?
When two ideas or images moves in different directions
Name one unique feature of the sonnet. What feeling is the sonnet particularly good at communication?
14 lines, volta, iambic pantameter, etc.
Longing/desire/love
Why did Shakespeare write in blank verse/iambic pentameter? How did it make it easier for actors to memorize lines of his plays?
We run out of breath at about 10 syllables
The lines were more faithful to breathing and could be memorized easier
In perfect iambic pentameter a line is broken into five feet, each foot consisting of two syllables. On what syllable is the stress put in each foot?
The second
What artist submitted a porcelain urinal as a piece of art to a gallery in New York? Was it accepted by the museum? Why?
M. Duchamp
What make dada and surrealism similar? Different?
Anti-establishment, anti-art, 20th Century movements in Europe
One is nihilistic, the other aims at a positive theory of meaning-creation