On 4-May-05, at 6:20 PM, Susanna Moodie wrote:

Hi Professor Martin,
I wanted to know if Harry Robinson's "Captive in an English Circus" was
definitely a poem or not. It is broken up into stanzas and written in the form
of a poem. I am outlining my essay for part B of the exam right now and I am
planning on using that poem as one of my three, but I wanted to double check
with you.
Hopefully you'll get back to me soon!
thanks so much,
Dana
ps- thank you again for the pizza today in class!

Dear Ms. Moodie,

Sorry that I've not gotten that full list of anthology selections online yet. Just working on that now.

I'd call Robinson's text a story, in part because that's what it's intended to be. The line breaks etc. add a visual element to the text to tell us how to read it. If you'll recall, this text is what Thomas King calls an example of "transfusional literature"

Paul

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On 4-May-05, at 7:10 PM, Catharine Parr Traill wrote:

I have two questions:

1) for the essay, can we use any poem, or only poems not discussed in class?

2) will you give us the name of the poems and the authors with the exam?

If you could get back to me as soon as possible i would greatly appreciate it.

Dear Ms. Traill,

1) You can use any poem that we've read regardless of whether we've discussed it or not. If there's something else you've read from the anthology on your own, you can use that as well.

2) I'll put the complete list of poems on the blog tonight (as soon as I get the kids to bed) and on the exam tomorrow as well.

Paul