Lee's third film is, thankfully, getting a far more quick release than Secret Sunshine. It hasn't opened yet, but it will at some point in 2011 (brought to you by Kino). The film is very reminiscent of his previous, in that it contains some huge moments of tragedy, but prefers to mute them in favor of subtle human drama. This one stars another outstanding actress, Yun Jeong-hie. About 60, she is a grandmother raising her teenage grandson all by herself (his father is long gone, and his mother has left her son for not entirely specified reasons). She isn't really up to it. She has no control over the kid. She's also becoming senile. Yun soon discovers that her lack of control over her grandson has had some extremely grave consequences. He won't acknowledge his crimes, but Grandma has to deal with them herself. Meanwhile, she tries as hard as she can to find solace in the poetry class which she has recently signed up for, though she has huge problems finding beauty in the world at this point. Yun's performance is absolutely masterful - her mind is kind of slipping away, and she's desperately trying to hold onto it in the face of this awful event. Emotions don't come easily, but you can see the weight of the world in that woman's eyes.
Surfing the Torrent is about a quest for truth, goodness, and beauty in a world that increasingly questions their very existence. The first of the two parts consists of poems derived from experiences in Greece revealing the birth of love for the place, and a woman of that place, the author's wife. The second part expands to journeys to Europe, India, Taiwan, China, Japan, and through the US, all of which contribute to the winding road. The poems explore varying worldviews and religions, eventually discovering theosis and spiritual growth. Humor plays a role, as it too can be revelatory. The reader is invited to enjoy the poems in a way that is elusive in much modern poetry.
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Rome Aboh's poetry unmistakably enwraps the condition of the politically and socially cannibalised segment of his society; and the beauty of the verse radiates from his facility with language as the stylist and linguist. The section "patriotism" with such poems as "hour of truth" aptly brings out the socially obligatory role of the poets whose mission goes beyond versifying and sharing their personal fantasies and urges. Similarly the poem "letter to the mp" echoes the agonies of the common masses who feel deceived by the ruling elite in their so-called democratic nations.
Dr Romanus 'Rome' Aboh is a senior lecturer in language and literature at the University of Uyo, Nigeria. With a PhD from the University of Ibadan, he has research interests in discourse analysis, pragmatics and identity discourse. Rome's interest in African literature extends beyond academic research and he is a published writer of poetry and fiction.
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Allie Long is an economics and English major at the University of Virginia. She began writing poetry in high school and is currently in a workshop mentored by Gregory Orr. Her poetry will appear in the forthcoming edition of Hooligan Magazine.
He said: "I don't quite understand about understanding poetry. I experience poems with pleasure: whether I understand them or not I'm not quite sure. I don't want to read something I already know or which is going to slide down easily:
there has to be some crunch, a certain amount of resilience."
Two years later, Hopkins decided to become a Jesuit priest and started his training. He burned all of his poems and announced that he was giving up poetry. He didn't write at all for seven years. In 1875, a German passenger ship called the SS Deutschland sank in a storm, and more than 75 passengers died, including five Franciscan nuns who were escaping harsh anti-Catholic laws. He wrote a long poem, The Wreck of the Deutschland, in commemoration. Hopkins saw poetry as a way to express his faith, and started writing again. In 1877, the year he was ordained as a priest, he wrote most of his best-known poems, including "Spring," "The Windhover," "As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame," and "God's Grandeur," which begins: "The world is charged with the grandeur of God. / It will flame out, like shining from shook foil."
Our desire is to share with our readers the beauty and wonder of turtles as expressed through the art of the poem or song. In the sense that the relationship between man and turtles is multifaceted, so too is turtle poetry. The poems we publish here will reflect that complexity, from poems of pure admiration for the creatures themselves to others reflecting the utilization of turtles and their products. Some poems will reflect man's use of the turtle for sustenance, others will stress man's need to preserve and protect turtles. Some will deal with our...
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Carole Satyamurti was a poet and social scientist. She published six collections of poetry, the most recent of which is Countdown (Bloodaxe, 2011). Her work has been widely anthologised, and has won numerous awards, including first prize in the National Poetry Competition, 1986, and a Cholmondeley Award in 2000. She was joint winner of the inaugural Roehampton Poetry Prize in 2015. Her retelling of the great Indian epic poem, The Mahabharata, was undertaken in the strong belief that this masterpiece of world literature deserves to be more widely known among Western readers. Mahabharata: A Modern Retelling is published by W.W. Norton.
Poetry has been part of the school curricula for a long time, both in modern languages and mother tongue teaching. Poetry was in fact considered to be a central part of the teaching of literature and was used to exemplify the various literary epochs. The teaching tended to focus on structure and poetic devices. Counting the iambic feet and looking for the rhyme scheme became paramount, while understanding and appreciation often would be pushed to one side. Where content was focused it was frequently expected that reading the poem once should be sufficient to grasp the main themes and enable the student to give a worthwhile commentary. Consequently, poetry had an appalling reputation in schools. Teachers found teaching poetry a thankless drudge and students considered the entire exercise a total waste of time. Even students who actually liked poetry found the teaching destructive. Although much has changed in recent years, the approach described here is still dominant in many schools. To offer my contribution to poetry in the classroom I have, for a number of years, worked actively to develop methods where the meeting between students and poetry can be both joyous and interesting.
I have included poetry in my language classes for several reasons. The language is often of a very high quality and can serve as model language for the students. In poetry, simple language may express very complex ideas, so although the text may be relatively easy to read the ideas conveyed can be challenging. This is a combination which suits older students. They may struggle with the strange language, but at the same time they need challenging ideas to find reading the texts worthwhile. Poetry presents the essence of human experiences common to peoples of widely varied backgrounds, crossing the boundaries of languages and cultures. Focusing on such common experiences can help to develop a cross-cultural awareness and deepen the understanding between students of different creeds and cultures. It may also provide the language students with the tools they need to verbalise their own complex ideas and thus increase both oral and written language production. In addition, poetic texts are excellent for reading aloud and provide good opportunities for pronunciation exercises, both for individual words and sentence melody. They are also perfect for learning by heart, and learning sentence structures and vocabulary items are central in all language learning.
There is a central point I see as basic to all poetry teaching and which therefore must be emphasised from the start: Poems must be read many times. The students must be given the opportunity to absorb both language and content before they are expected to make any statements about the poem. The most negative experiences I have had with poetry is the class where a poem is read aloud once by the teacher and the reading is followed immediately by the question: "What is the poem about?" I have vivid memories from my own school days of my panic in such situations, and I have observed today's students fraught with the same panic. As teachers we must remember that even if we have read the poem dozens of times, might indeed have known it since our own school days, the students most likely have never seen it before. Nobody can be expected to grasp the content of a poem after one reading, and even less to make a sensible statement about it. It is therefore vital that we give the students a chance to become thoroughly familiar with the poem before we demand any serious comments from them. To ask for a quick response after the first reading may be both rewarding and interesting, but a proper discussion on theme and content must wait. This may seem obvious, but observations from classrooms show that this is an area where we teachers sin frequently.
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