The Humanities from the Past and Present (Essay Sample)

13811259525Take-Home Exam for Final Assignment 2020-2021/Second
Take-Home Exam for Final Assignment 2020-2021/Second -1905088900
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Exam Start Date: Thursday 10 June, 2021, at 4:05 pm
Exam End Date: Saturday 12 June, 2021, at 4:05 pm
Exam Duration: 48 hours
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Total Marks: 50/50
Earned Marks: ----------- /50
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Choose only TWO of the three questions shown below and write two complete multi-paragraph essays. Your answers must manifest your in-depth understanding of the essay topics. Each essay is expected to be about 600 words, and all the major ideas must be sufficiently supported by examples from the course materials. Each essay is worth twenty-five points.
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Question 1: (25 marks)
1. The Faber Book of Beasts, edited by Paul Muldoon, is an anthology, and, thus “a provocative text that shapes our understanding of poetry”. Explain the above statement.
Answer 1:
The Irish poet loc MacNeice is getting the heart of the tension in literary ideas-based tradition when he was writing. According to OED, the word means the collection of the flowers of verse as well as deriving from the ancient Greek practice of collecting favorite poems. For almost as long as people have been writing poems, readers have culled special favorites, the choice of flowers into personal collections. The construction of the ontology of the poem which the same as the compiling of music playlist for the iPod. The widespread impression which gathers favorites into the convenient place, this takes the form of the book or computer file.
There is a more powerful document compared to the private collection since the capacity to influence a wider range of people. The commercial is defining the way of given kind of poetry is understood. The anthologist is defining as well as delimiting the scope of the tradition. The author of several prize-winning collections. We may expect that would be more than just the subjective his favorite animal poems. Though Faber is a small company, it is highly prestigious and has published famous poets. The Faber brand is the guarantor of the poetic quality of the least ambition. Most anthologies organize the material through historically, writers who are working contain. Organizes the content in the ways, selects by the 10th century. The Irish poet and prints substantial extracts from the work. The alphabetical structure is unusual, it can allow Muldoon to make crafting creative juxtapositions. It is a less despotic but not chronological structure may be. The alphabetical structure does not allow the reader to read only the older or only the older or only the contemporary poems. It is shuffling them together and refused to privilege distinctions between the modern and ancient.
On contrary, in the introduction of Muldoon has stated that the purpose of his work is to show the selection of the best animal poems in English-speaking traditions. Also, he has admitted that the plan is undermined by various translations he added. Muldoon wished to add Scottish, Welsh, Inuit poetry, and Native American, he opted for few translations which have to take a lesser or greater extent of English tradition. The selection of Muldoon is guided by the inclusive, non-hierarchical which wants the extend the awareness of the range of traditions of the animal rather than privileging one tradition. Muldoon mentions that anthologist tends to be very arrogant and also despotic, the introduction is going to live up to several expectations. We can see that the anthologist seems to be bossy, he at least conforms to them, though they may expect this when they acknowledge the pretensions of the anthologist, he is aiming at avoiding this. Based on the halfway, Muldoon has introduced it by discussing the alphabetical method of an anthology. Though he does not talk about the reason for choosing to organize the contents in such a way, he has stressed the advantages, it can allow the number of felicitous fusions. Several poems are read from various traditions, they are written in various styles on the level of the playing field.
We can observe the same impulse at work in the admission that has rationed the poems by the writers individually, very brilliance of writers like the Seamus and D.H Lawrence has started to measure alongside them. The bestiaries gathered pseudo-scientific data based on the animal and things which accompanies which moralizes commentary as well as beautiful manuscript illustrations. The anthology of Muldoon recalls the medieval traditions of bestiaries, however, there is a significant difference that he is not attempting which provides the unified moral commentary, the importance of the beast which includes being finally as varied as the poetic contents of the volume
Question 2: (25 marks)
1 Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger wanted to show how the past is used differently by different societies. How does their line of argument apply to the Irish experience, to the nationalist one to be more specific?
Answer 2:
Question 3: (25 marks)
1 In his paintings of the landscape, Cezanne manifested his commitment to impressionism as a movement. Comment concerning his paintings of the Mont Sainte-Victoire.
Answer 3:
Paul Cezanne used to a French painter, he is among the best postimpressionists, has got influential work and ideas in the aesthetic development of many 20th-century artists as well as an art movement, particularly cubism. The art of Cezanne, discredited and misunderstood by many during most of his life, grew up out of impressionism, and finally, he challenges all the conventional values of painting in the 19th century by insisting on the personal expression as well as on the integrity of the painting itself. He has been referred to as the father of contemporary painting.
In art and art criticism, content and form are taken as distinct aspects of artwork. The t