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How to Read Literature Like a Professor. Chapters 10, 19-20 Rain and Snow Geography Seasons. So what does it mean if it rains or snows? Rainbows and fog?. Rain: Cleansing Restorative Tone (mysterious, misery) Snow: Clean Stark Severe Inhospitable Playful Suffocating Filthy Fog:
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapters 10, 19-20 Rain and Snow Geography Seasons
So what does it mean if it rains or snows? Rainbows and fog? Rain: • Cleansing • Restorative • Tone (mysterious, misery) Snow: • Clean • Stark • Severe • Inhospitable • Playful • Suffocating • Filthy Fog: • Uncertainty Rainbow: • Peace • Divinity • Unique/uncommon
What about geography? • When and where count as geography (places, time periods, directions) • Hills, rivers, lakes, deserts • Politics, history, economics • People (characters) • Plot device
And Seasons? • Spring: birth, youth • Summer: adolescence, experimentation • Fall:middle age/knowledge • Winter: end of life, death What emotions can we equate with the seasons?
Read the 2 poems and “annolight” as you read them. Then answer: • How do weather, geography and seasons affect your understanding and interpretations of the poem (individually)? • How do weather, geography and seasons connect the 2 poems? How do they divide the poems? • Both are about snow and winter and walking through the woods (most basic idea). What is the tone of each? How is the tone similar and/or different in each poem?
More connections: • How do weather, geography and seasons affect your understanding and interpretations of “Where are you going, where have you been?”?