<p>I don’t think Nisus represented Oldham’s success… I remember the choice about Oldham’s competitive philosophy, which is basically what Nisus stood for (as the footnote showed) - someone who was willing to give himself up to help others. I don’t totally remember all the choices though.</p>
<p>What was the answer on the music lesson passage about angels pausing?</p>
<p>Sure, but there was another question that asked something like ‘what two things did the speaker not associate?’ One of the things he did associate was ‘the race’ and ‘success’.</p>
<p>These are a few things I remember:</p>
<p>1) “supernatural and __<strong><em>”
2) author sympathizes with the boy (against the cougar, the older woman)
3) the author and the reader find the woman’s mistakes funny
4) How are the snow and the author alike? They both make the world more magical (or something)
5) Movement and color, texture and _</em></strong>, one more thing (we had to choose which were mentioned in the first stanza). My answer: Only A - movement and color</p>
<p>I’ll try to think of more</p>
<p>I think that one - “fame” and “the finish line” - doesn’t necessarily equate to Nisus representing his success, though you could definitely be right. Darn, I was pretty sure I didn’t miss anything on that passage…</p>
<p>I got just movement and color too! Idk why but that one made me think a bit</p>
<p>For the one with the passionate arduous fat woman which characteristic is being mocked? Greed or vanity? Also who is laughing at this Mrs. Slipshop? The narrator or the reader or Joseph?
For snow storm poem how is the storm similar to the poet? They both show consciousness of their audience?
For Yolanda, why is it “the mother”? And why does the mother say “great imagination”? Because she doesn’t know her daughter?
For the outside and inside hand paragraphs, what was the most valuable thing to the author? Something about tender?
Mr. Oldhand poem was about a friend renouncing poetry?</p>
<p>I think I did bad.</p>
<p>I said that the Oldham poetry was about death. I can’t remember the specific answers that I put for the others.</p>
<p>Yeah I just checked. The poem is an elegy. Did fruits refer to poetry or fame?
Also what was the “maturing time” about?</p>
<p>To answer some:
I got sunlight has nothing to do with the title. Other words were about dance and moving and Music.
I got communicative and uncommunicative because industrious and indolent were a contrast pair shown. “Idle” “manual” etc. But what about the weak white hand? Options were invulnerable, misguided wtc. I chose misguided.
For yolanda I put finding identity.</p>
<p>I put finding identity, too
I said sunlight
I chose misguided
I said that fruits were poetry, but I could be wrong. I just thought is made the most sense.
I said that the poem was about a dead young poet…did you guys get that?
I said Oldhand was successful in his poetry
I put color and movement, only
I answered malapropisms at one point
I said the narrator and the reader were supposed to find her funny
I put that it was “the mother” because the author wanted to restrict the mother to that role, or for us to think of her just as Yolanda’s mother…something like that</p>
<p>Seconding/“thirding” finding identity, misguided, fruits being poetry, poem about dead poet, oldhand being successful, color and movement, malapromisms, narrator and reader finding her funny, and restricting the role…</p>
<p>Still going to argue the sunlight thing to death, but I’m likely wrong. Anyone find a copy of the poem online?</p>
<p>THE DANCE</p>
<p>When the world ends,
I will be in a red dress.
When the world ends,
I will be in a smoky bar
…on Friday night.
When the world ends,
I will be a thought-cloud.
When the world ends,
I will be steam in a tea kettle.
When the world ends,
I will be a sunbeam through
…a lead window,
And I will shake like the
…semis on the interstate,
And I will shake like the tree
…kissed by lightning,
And I will move; the earth will move
…too,
And I will move; the cities will move
…too,
And I will move, with the remains of
…my last paycheck in my pocket.
It will be Friday night
And I will be in a red dress,
My feet relieved of duty,
My body in free-fall,
Loose as a ballerina
…in zero gravity,
Equal at last with feathers
…and dust,
As the world faints and tumbles
…down the stairs,
The jukebox is overtaken at last,
And the cicadas, under the eaves,
…warm up their legs.</p>
<p>Cicadas warming up their legs…for dancing. Sunbeams and windows don’t have much to do with dancing - that’s a bit of a stretch</p>
<p>Btw, which one did you guys say was an example of personification?</p>
<p>The personification was “the world ____”, I forget the word but I remember that it was the only example of personification.</p>
<p>“the world fainted”. What did you guys think was the most difficult passage? I didn’t love the 2nd one about indoors/outdoors</p>
<p>Also, for THE DANCE, what did you guys say for the question about what the red dress the narrator wears represents? I think I said it was futile ___________</p>
<p>there was one question and for the answer I put that there were parallels throughout the poem…was that right?</p>
<p>Oh, and my least favorite was also the indoor/outdoor thing.</p>
<p>My favorite was the one about the father whose daughter would be taking music lessons. I actually really enjoyed the poem.</p>
<p>@Galinda yes, parallel structure. My favorite/easiest for me was the last passage w/ yolanda. It was pretty straight up and easy to understand.</p>