My brain is fried.... heeeelp

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

I have to write a ten page paper having to do with the theme of exile by 5pm tomorrow - any suggestions of poets that write about exile and all the stuff that goes along with it? I'd need multiple examples from the same poet to write about =)

My other option is to write a fictional story of exile. I was thinking about that too.

*grumblefinalgrumble*

[Rising Phoenix]

1. agorophobics are self-exiled...

that would be a twist...

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

3. ahhh

i did my midterm paper on self-exile and i can't repeat topics :(

[Rising Phoenix]

4. d'oh

[Squatch]

2. Alexandre Dumas

[MissHoneychurch]

5. Thomas Mann

and Heinrich Mann

Bertolt Brecht

[Tyrone Slothrop]

6. James Joyce

He was self-exiled from Ireland and a lot of his work touches on the theme of exile.

His poetry is much more accessible than his prose work, too.

[Zomby Woof]

7. Although not strictly a poet

James Joyce is an excellent example of author-in-exile... self-exile from Ireland.

My brain is fried too... 7 weeks of new job training and testing galore... :crazy:

:hi: Maggiepoop!

[JohnnyCougar]

8. Mine is too!

I just took a cumulative exam on multivariate statistics (factor analysis, multivariate analysis of variance, multidemensional scaling, logilinear modeling/multiway analysis, cluster analysis, principal component analysis, cannonical correlation). Yeah, it was a math exam.

It was 7 essay questions, too, with the final two worth 30 points each (out of 100). The teacher handed us a stack of legal paper and told us to fill it up. I had about 50 pages of notes on it, too. And the study guide didn't narrow it down at all, either. It basically just summarized the notes. So not only did I memorize the equations, I had to memorize the assumptions, the advantages and drawbacks of the statistical model, and the proper interpretation of the results.

I got only 2 hours of sleep. But now I am done! :bounce:

But I am too tired to do anything.

Good luck on your paper!!

[XNASA]

9. Your brain is fried?

I wouldn't tell Zuni if I were you.

[oneighty]

10. Ahh, there you are

Just this morning I wondered;"Where is what's her name?" And by golly there you are.

Try Sir Walter Scott; Breathes there a man with soul so dead who to himself has never said this is my own my native land. (From memory)

Later used I believe in 'Man Without A Country' by Edward Everette Hale.

Hi LeftPeopleFinishFirst

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[Aristus]

11. I hope this suggestion will help, Maggie.

"The Ballad Of Reading Gaol" by Oscar Wilde. It's about prison, obviously, and not exile. But you can look at it as Wilde being exiled from the society he knew so well and commented on so wittily. Also, he was separated from his children, whom he obviously adored.

[imperialismispasse]

12. ts eliot the wasteland

Its more a metaphorical exile but its about loneliness and decay. Its pretty good.

[WindRavenX]

13. Adam Zagajewski's "Try To Praise The Mutilated World"

This deals with the idea of exiles in the sense that a crumbling world destroys those with gentle hearts and poetic minds:


Try to praise the mutilated world.
Remember June's long days,
and wild strawberries, drops of wine, the dew.
The nettles that methodically overgrow
the abandoned homesteads of exiles.
You must praise the mutilated world.
You watched the stylish yachts and ships;
one of them had a long trip ahead of it,
while salty oblivion awaited others.
You've seen the refugees heading nowhere,
you've heard the executioners sing joyfully.
You should praise the mutilated world.
Remember the moments when we were together
in a white room and the curtain fluttered.
Return in thought to the concert where music flared.
You gathered acorns in the park in autumn
and leaves eddied over the earth's scars.
Praise the mutilated world
and the grey feather a thrush lost,
and the gentle light that strays and vanishes
and returns.


Translated by Renata Gorczynski

[JVS]

14. Shouldn't you have already read the stuff by now?

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

16. Nah

It doesn't have to be a research paper, it's just a reflection.

And poems don't take a long time to read.

[JVS]

20. true reflection take a long time

[kick-ass-bob]

15. Watch out! Zuni will be here any sec!

I know, someone already said it, but dammit, I wanted to anyways.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

17. i missed something

:(

[kick-ass-bob]

26. Zuni has been rumored to be the undead;

zombies, more specifically, whose diet consists of brains. And yours are fried. :9 for him.

[supernova]

18. There's also Jean Paul Sartre's No Exit

It's a play about a group of people (seven?) who are all in the the same room together. They gradually realize they are all in Hell together.

They are exiled from Heaven.

edti: :hi: Maggie! :D

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

19. thanks

I decided to do a fictional piece :)

everyone was helpful though

[libodem]

21. write one about

kicking the current administration out of the country...if we can't find an institution for the criminally insane that will take them all.

[GreenPartyVoter]

22. "Exodus" from the KJV Bible can be poetic, also Amergin

http://www.allaboutirish.com/library/tales/amergin.shtm

[salin]

23. being rather a rube per poets

I can give no advice, nor suggestions... just some empathy for the mental energy drain caused by finals. Best of luck to you Maggie :loveya:

[salin]

24. being rather a rube per poets

I can give no advice, nor suggestions... just some empathy for the mental energy drain caused by finals. Best of luck to you Maggie :loveya:

[Whoa_Nelly]

25. Write about yourself as Napoleon and the last night before being exiled

End it his last night before death, reflecting on the comparative irony of political exile to complete exile through death. OR

Maybe you could start with his night before death, and chapter it back and forth in relation to his thoughts/perceptions on the night before political exile. In between each mental rambling, put in a poem that is metaphorically related to the new topic/train of thought.



Just a suggestion :hi: