http://briancroxall.net/readwrite/2009/11/again-the-fields/ English 310 at Clemson University Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:45:31 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://briancroxall.net/readwrite/2009/11/again-the-fields/comment-page-1/#comment-153 Brian Croxall Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:01:58 +0000 http://briancroxall.net/readwrite/2009/11/again-the-fields/#comment-153 If you'd known about the notes in the text before you wrote this, Bobby, you would have noticed that the epigraph to the poem doesn't come from Homer. Instead, when a poet writes "After" someone at the beginning of the poem, it is there to signify a text that was an important reference. In Trethewey's case, she writes a poem that is a description (ekphrasis) of a painting, although she moves someplace else at the end of the poem. I think that Trethewey is wanting us to notice the absence of the black worker in a painting like this, and her poem provides the antidote to this absence. If you’d known about the notes in the text before you wrote this, Bobby, you would have noticed that the epigraph to the poem doesn’t come from Homer. Instead, when a poet writes “After” someone at the beginning of the poem, it is there to signify a text that was an important reference. In Trethewey’s case, she writes a poem that is a description (ekphrasis) of a painting, although she moves someplace else at the end of the poem. I think that Trethewey is wanting us to notice the absence of the black worker in a painting like this, and her poem provides the antidote to this absence.

]]> http://briancroxall.net/readwrite/2009/11/again-the-fields/comment-page-1/#comment-152 bob hottensen Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:43:48 +0000 http://briancroxall.net/readwrite/2009/11/again-the-fields/#comment-152 Who are the 'dead' in homer's quotation? Who are the ‘dead’ in homer’s quotation?

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