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Week 4 DQ_Literature

Week 4 DQ_Literature

Q Hello everyone, For this week, you are to respond to poems that directly engage with social concerns, especially with questions of representation. Before you offer your responses to the poems, be sure to look at the PowerPoint presentations about them that I have uploaded to the “PowerPoint Presentations” module in Canvas. One of the poems you discuss must be from the following list: • Louise Erdrich, “Dear John Wayne,” https://genius.com/Louise-erdrich-dear-john-wayne-annotated (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. • Yusef Komunyakaa, “Facing It,” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47867/facing-it (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. • Mohja Kahf, “Thawrah des Odalisques at the Matisse Retrospective” and “If the Odalisques,” available in the “Additional Readings” module on Canvas. The other poem you discuss must be from the following list: • W, H. Auden, “The Unknown Citizen,” available at https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/unknown-citizen (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. • Hayan Charara, “You,” available at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/91509/you-583daf986f6e7 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. • Pablo Neruda, “The United Fruit Co.,” available at https://www.poemhunter.com/best-poems/pablo-neruda/the-united-fruit-co/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. ?

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The first poem that I have chosen for the context is The Unknown Citizen by W. H Auden. I have chosen this poem because this poem starts with an ironic epigraph – “To JS/07 M 378 This Marble Monument Is Erected by the State”. It should be mentioned here that the poem is considered to be one of the most reputed poems of Auden. Another reason to select the poem is because the tone of the poem is both disturbing as well as satirical. The poem introduces the audiences with the Bureau of Statistics as well as other reports, which show that the unknown citizen used to work in a factory and he paid all the union dues.