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This slightly mоre chаllenging questiоn, which cоmes with +1 extrа credit if you chose to аnswer it, invites you to compare or contrast a poem you have seen before in our packet of Poems from Arab Andalusia to a brief poem that you have not seen, from a different tradition, that uses a similar metaphor. PROMPT: Write a 500 word essay in which you compare or contrast the usage of setting in these two poems. You may speak about other poetic elements, including figurative language, in conjunction with your discussion of setting, as you wish. How does reading these two poems along side each other lead to a closer reading of both or of one of the poems in particular? Keep in mind the information I provide about setting in our Terms to Know handout: Setting: the world-making of the poem, including physical surroundings, history and social/political context. These elements may be thought of as the context of the poetic utterance, its framing. Yet because the setting is created through the very words of the poem, setting is also an integral part of the utterance itself. The world-making of the poem often serves to intensify figurative meaning, indicate mood, and serve as symbol. In the poem below, by the 11th century Japanese female poet Izumi Shikibu, the stream serves finally as the setting of the poem's action. At the same time, it serves as a figure used to define her tears: The reason I cried? that my tears might become a stream in which to rinse this muddied name. THE TWO POEMS YOU ARE TO WRITE ABOUT: The first poem is by the male poet Ibn Khafaja (1058-1138) and appears in our “Poems of Arab Andalusia” handout: THE EMBROIDERED WRAP Her glance, like a gazelle's, her throat, that of a white deer, lips red as wine, teeth white as sea foam. Tipsiness made her languid. The gold-embroidered figures of her wrap swirled round her, brilliant stars around the moon. During the night love's hands wrapped us in a garment of embraces ripped open by the hands of dawn. —Ibn Khafaja (1058-1138) (Alcim) The second poem is another five line poem by the same female poet from whom I draw the example in my discussion of setting above in our “Terms to Know” handout. The Japanese poet Izumi Shikibu lived much of her life as a palace courtesan at the turn of the eleventh century. This five line poem is about a lover, a man, who leaves her house in the morning, as is made clear by the very short prose introductory line, which offers a sense of the story, the narrative that frames the poem itself. In October, a man came and then left: How easily, leaving my house, he cuts through the embroidered fabric of the fall leaves! —Izumi Shikibu (974–1034) (Japan) Keep in mind that I understand you don’t know much about Izumi Shikibu, other than that she is a woman, or Japanese court culture. In fact, if you like, you may note what you don’t know and wonder about as you write, as that pertains to your argument. Your assignment is simply to focus on discussing what you see happening in the poems themselves. You don’t have much space in 500 words, so focus your attention on something in particular you want to compare or contrast in your reading. PROMPT: Write a 500 word essay in which you compare or contrast the usage of setting in these two poems. You may speak about other poetic elements, including figurative language, in conjunction with your discussion of setting, as you wish. How does reading these two poems along side each other lead to a closer reading of both or of one of the poems in particular?
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