Class Notes October 12, 2010

• Read Apocryphal story of Suzanna
• pg. 1467 Bible
• story about women walking in the garden
• lust of priests
• Psalm 51: Iconic Music
• boy reached pitch that people had not heard before (listened to this on October 19 in class)
• Wallace Stevens
• Peter Quince @ the Clavier: READ!
• blog about by Thursday October 21
• tell about relationship between poem and the story of Suzanna
• http://www.poetry-archive.com/s/peter_quince_at_the_clavier.html
• Joseph
• J-writer
• "writing with Biblical tradition"
• Parataxes
• places thing side by side instead of subordinate
• urgency, simplistic, childlike (and, and, and)
• Mark 6
• Earnest Hemming way
• Judges 5:25
• repetition
• crude poetic power
• Numbers 7-18
• Repetition
• Oral Traditions=formulas
• make hearing better than reading
• easier to remember
• 3x
• Also seen in Children's Literature
• Joseph's Brothers
• need to figure out lesson by themselves
• change themselves (moral lesson)
• Writers
• creative=God
• change/manipulate lives/stories/characters