Pratt and Klein Final Exam: 3 parts. A.Multiple Choice (30 points)- Passages from readings. Understand concepts. No questions about years. Touch on the most important concepts. The better notes you have. B.Passage identification and commentary. Author and title and talk about the significance. There are 5 choices you choose 3. (30 points)- take an hour to write about paper. C.Essay. 3 Thematic Questions. Talk about 3 different works that address the theme. (40 points). Give yourself an hour and a half for the essay. (3 hour exam) Covers course material. E.J. Pratt- Born in 1882 but considered a modern poet. Strongly influenced by a lot of things that influenced them. Raised Christian. He was a Methodist Crisis of faith during university. There an exposure to Darwinism altered him. Was Canada’s leading poet in 1920-1950 Northrop Frye, E.K Brown – looks at origins of Canadian poetry. Very few poets that was published by the Macmillan Co. Canada. (schoolbook publisher). Had literary prestige in England. Belonged to a Toronto culture poet at the Toronto University. In contrast to the Mcgill group. Pratt went on to write epic poetry. Wellknown for braeboeulf. Is an interesting transitional figue. One hand respected tradition and other hand embraced renovation** Embraced modern science (evolution) never abandoned his religious upbringing. Experimented with form (modernism). Continued to work with meter and rhyme. Confederation poets were also interested with meter and rhyme. Pratt pushed it further. We can see this transitional when we look at the truant: The truant: Each speaker means something different We can redeuce it to 20thcentury science and the humanistic tradition Matter Vs. mind Determinism vs. free will The great pandrandrum: made up name for a tyrant. Nonsense word meaning any ridiculous monarch voice of the universe. Molecular, vaste unconscious and tropic. All mighty monarch seated on the throne. Associate him with death. Possesses the power to kill. Voice of pure matter. Everything disintegrating into dust.
The truant:rebel against the monarch. Defies the role that has been prescribed for him. Feeling knowing and self sacrificing. Free to act how he chooses. Even If he’s mortal he can write his own story. In summary:it presents the human mind and will that should be permissible to science but is not. Truant against the meer system of atoms
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