First off I just wanted to say I love the title of your presentation (“Let’s Get Wilde”) and I loved your extra credit food idea. I also thought your presentation as a whole was very well-delivered, because you didn’t seem to just ramble off everything you did for the last month and a half and call it a day, but you really broke down and explained the concept of “aesthetics vs. meaning” that Oscar Wilde was trying to convey very well.
For your second poetry essay – I have to say I liked the thematic connection back to “The Picture of Dorian Gray” than actual analysis of the poem in the beginning. I think your textual evidence was spot-on – juxtaposing life and death with daisies and snow, as well as the diction used to convey decay in the hair of the girl (who is in fact Wilde’s sister) “rusting.” However, I think you could have separated those two points into separate paragraphs and elaborated on each of them more. I would maybe even consider making the second main point about the figurative language Wilde used as a whole, rather than the diction of it. The girl’s hair “rusting” is a beautiful use of personification that parallels her slowing coming to death, and the simile of her being “Lily-like, white as snow” (line 9) amplifies the tragedy of her death, as it is something so sweet has had a sour ending; this can then lead into your thematic connection with your independent novel even better.
Personally, I think that you had one of the best overall marketing packages for your presentation. Your business cards were very simple and elegant, the same deep purple color was used throughout your entire presentation, and your title was a creative and relative play on your author’s name and beliefs. I also thought that the chocolate cookies that you made were delicious and your reason for bringing them, that they looked nice and had no other purpose, was humorous and perfect support for the aesthetic movement that Wilde was a part of! I could also relate my author, Charlotte Bronte’s, writing to some of Wilde’s because they were both authors in the Victorian Era.
I found your Open Question Essay #1 interesting because it discussed how Wilde tried to use his writing to express his views on loveless relationships. The humor and sarcasm that he uses seem to be an effective way of getting the audience of the Victorian times, many of whom had opinions that differed from Wilde’s, to listen. I also like how the essay touches on and describes the aesthetic movement as just making art for art’s sake. You bring up an interesting point that Wilde compares his view on writing and life to acting. He believed that it was harder to capture beauty in life than it was in art. The one thing that confuses me though, is that Wilde seems to contradict himself in this essay. He writes plays to bring about social change in love and relationships but believes that art has no other use than to be beautiful. Besides the strange fact that Wilde goes against his own beliefs, I found your presentation and essay easy to follow and insightful!
First off I just wanted to say I love the title of your presentation (“Let’s Get Wilde”) and I loved your extra credit food idea. I also thought your presentation as a whole was very well-delivered, because you didn’t seem to just ramble off everything you did for the last month and a half and call it a day, but you really broke down and explained the concept of “aesthetics vs. meaning” that Oscar Wilde was trying to convey very well.
ReplyDeleteFor your second poetry essay – I have to say I liked the thematic connection back to “The Picture of Dorian Gray” than actual analysis of the poem in the beginning. I think your textual evidence was spot-on – juxtaposing life and death with daisies and snow, as well as the diction used to convey decay in the hair of the girl (who is in fact Wilde’s sister) “rusting.” However, I think you could have separated those two points into separate paragraphs and elaborated on each of them more. I would maybe even consider making the second main point about the figurative language Wilde used as a whole, rather than the diction of it. The girl’s hair “rusting” is a beautiful use of personification that parallels her slowing coming to death, and the simile of her being “Lily-like, white as snow” (line 9) amplifies the tragedy of her death, as it is something so sweet has had a sour ending; this can then lead into your thematic connection with your independent novel even better.
Personally, I think that you had one of the best overall marketing packages for your presentation. Your business cards were very simple and elegant, the same deep purple color was used throughout your entire presentation, and your title was a creative and relative play on your author’s name and beliefs. I also thought that the chocolate cookies that you made were delicious and your reason for bringing them, that they looked nice and had no other purpose, was humorous and perfect support for the aesthetic movement that Wilde was a part of! I could also relate my author, Charlotte Bronte’s, writing to some of Wilde’s because they were both authors in the Victorian Era.
ReplyDeleteI found your Open Question Essay #1 interesting because it discussed how Wilde tried to use his writing to express his views on loveless relationships. The humor and sarcasm that he uses seem to be an effective way of getting the audience of the Victorian times, many of whom had opinions that differed from Wilde’s, to listen. I also like how the essay touches on and describes the aesthetic movement as just making art for art’s sake. You bring up an interesting point that Wilde compares his view on writing and life to acting. He believed that it was harder to capture beauty in life than it was in art. The one thing that confuses me though, is that Wilde seems to contradict himself in this essay. He writes plays to bring about social change in love and relationships but believes that art has no other use than to be beautiful. Besides the strange fact that Wilde goes against his own beliefs, I found your presentation and essay easy to follow and insightful!