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... Kieri Bourque April 6, 2008 Essay #3 Jeff Pethybridge To act or not to act despite
what tradition states; An understanding of the book “This Connection of ...
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Kieri Bourque
April 6, 2008
Essay #3
Jeff Pethybridge
To act or not to act despite what tradition states;
An understanding of the book “This Connection of Everyone with Lungs”
How many times have you come across something in the paper and felt a small twinge of pain for the suffering of the subject of the article? I know there have been many occasions that I thought that I should help but protocol and tradition said that I shouldn’t and so I didn’t. These are things that Juliana Spahr touches on in this book. She asks us to think about two specific topics, “the unanswerable question of political responsibility” and “the call to act despite the lack of answers.” The book in itself is her call to act despite the lack of answers and it is seen in many ways. However to understand what those ways are you have to break down what she is saying, get passed the similes and metaphors of her poetry and get to the root of her thoughts.
Juliana Spahr creates a voice in these poems that is seeking solutions to the world and almost thinking out loud in a sense. She ultimately comes across the idea that everything going on in the world gets in through a human’s five senses. We breathe in oxygen and fumes from a fire, and we exhale carbon dioxide and our thoughts. But it all gets under our skin even if we don’t truly acknowledge that it is there. She tries to use poetry to embody things that only theory can point to. Knowing that she is writing about the invasion of Iraq after September 11, 2001 helps to understand some of the flow and the reasons that she chooses to include what goes on throughout the world on a day to day basis. The poem is an expanded thought process strewn throughout the course of four months and everyday that she writes and pinpoints specifics she ties into her life because ha is part of the point that she is trying to make, we are all connected by the things that we...
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