Questions Posed
ROHS AP Literature Explorations of LiteratureWhat happens when Royal Oak’s AP Literature students meet to unpack novels, plays, poetry, and literary theory? It’s Questions Posed, our ongoing series of discussions on various questions deeper than the SparkNotes approach to literature. Enjoy!
Bogan: “Man Alone”
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The EAH crew reflect on mirrors and introspection in Louise Bogan’s work.
Man Alone
In a long rage,
Scanning through light and darkness
Mirrors, the page,
Where should reflected be
Those eyes and that thick hair,
That passionate look, that laughter.
You should appear
Within the book, or doubled,
Freed, in the silvered glass;
Into all other bodies
Yourself should pass.
The glass does not dissolve;
Like walls the mirrors stand;
The printed page gives back
Words by another hand.
And your infatuate eye
Meets not itself below;
Strangers lie in your arms
As I lie now.
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Jack, Gwen, Natalie, and Adam examine the narrator’s misplaced sense of superiority.
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IM Ch 4: How to Deal with White People
Jack, Gwen, Natalie, and Adam contrast the different interactions IM and Bledsoe have with Norton.
IM Ch 2: Norton & IM’s Responsibility
Jack, Gwen, Natalie, and Adam consider who is responsible for the imbalance of power.
IM Ch 2: Paying Trueblood
Mia, Anja, Sophia, Ian, and Alex examine the complex motivations for Norton’s pay-off of Trueblood.
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