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Heavy, leather-covered furniture → they used to be rich
“gilt” – covered with gold
“easel” – stojan na plátno
She looked bloated – she looked like a corpse, not healthy
Poison for rats – ambiguity – does she want it for herself or for rats?
Father had a horsewhip – to represent his power
It was family with mental problems – they married within the family
It is not normal attitude – to keep corpse of her father in the house
She was sick – she was depressed? Was she affected by change (death of her father)?
She cut her hair, “look like a girl” – she is 30 in that time, it’s a new start for her
She shops for Homer, we don’t know if he agreed with this shopping
She might impregnated the corpse
Ezra Pound – In a Station of the Metro
The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.
Modernism – typically short text
Modernists like city, they admired technology → metro
They wrote about buildings, skyscrapers…
Very visual, they emphasised sight
Metaphor – preferred trope of modernists
Modern life – we are in a crowd but we are alone because everybody is going somewhere, fast life, we are anonymous
It refers to spring – petals
William Carlos Williams – Portrait of a Lady
Your thighs are appletrees
whose blossoms touch the sky. → metaphor, hyperbole – touching the sky
Which sky? The sky
where Watteau hung a lady's
slipper. Your knees
are a southern breeze -- or → metaphor – southern breeze is hot
a gust of snow. Agh! what → gust of snow – purity
sort of man was Fragonard? – He realizes i tis not Watteau but Fragonard
-- As if that answered
anything. -- Ah, yes. Below
the knees, since the tune
drops that way, it is
one of those white summer days,
the tall grass of your ankles – ankles are thin and tall
flickers upon the shore --
Which shore? --
the sand clings to my lips --
Which shore?
Agh, petals maybe. How
should I know?
Which shore? Which shore?
-- the petals from some hidden
appletree -- Which shore?
I said petals from an appletree.
Appletree is associated with beautiful woman
Cultural references are common in modernism
Emotions are too powerful and our language is too weak to express emotions – that’s why we communicate also by silence – it can express emotion
John Steinbeck – Chrysanthemums
20th writer
He gave up university at Stanford
He represents south-west (territory that was lost by Mexico)
Winner of the Nobel Prize
Tortilla Flat – his first famous work [tortija] – he writes about common people, farmers from California, about vagrant people = tramps
Of Mice and Men – he writes about people with mental disabilities – it was transformed in a play
The Grapes of Wrath – about family who loses their farm, the land had no longer been used
Died of heart-attack
The plot takes place on a ranch
Elisa and Henry are couple, she likes to work with flowers
Stereotypical gender position – woman is working, husband is talking with business men
Chrysanthemum = autumn flowers, they are the last flowers – enduring, strong, but also delicate
Elisa is beautiful, strong, she needs love – such as chrysanthemums
Elisa isn’t happy with her life, she doesn’t have children and her husband doesn’t admire her as a woman and she finds happiness only in taking care of chrysanthemums → they symbolize Elisa’s children – she is proud of them, takes care of them
Chrysanthemums also symbolize her sexuality – the tinker admires her flowers – so he admires her as a woman
She is attracted to the tinker (dráteník) – because he represents freedom that could enjoy only men in those days
Elisa would like to be treated equally but it is not possible
In the end she realizes that the tinker wasn’t interested in her – he throw away her flowers
She realizes that her husband will not understand her needs, will not see her sexuality