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Subject: Re: narrowed down proposal

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Prof Yun

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Date Posted: 22:23:58 04/30/01 Mon
In reply to: sheila hyer 's message, "narrowed down proposal" on 18:28:12 04/29/01 Sun

I see the focus clearly here. You have mapped it out. What is still not clear is what particular debate you are going to have with this work.But I look forward to reading it. Have fun with it. Stretch out your legs and enjoy the exploration. "Sex and sexuality" (two different things, by the way) open up enough room for writing not only fifteen pages, but twenty volumes...

>To make my paper more tight I will focus only on the
>poem "Bonobo" by Tim Seibles and my own poem called
>"The Fall". I will examine the the multi dimensional
>quality of sex poetry. I think a omparison of my work
>with "Bonobo" will be interesting because Sieble's
>work raises social and political issues clearly while
>the issues underlying my poem are less apparent. I
>plan to to a close analysis of the issues Sieble's is
>raising by examinng his poem line by line. I will also
>use his essay to contextualize the poem and aid my
>reading of it.
>For my poem I will use a similar approach. I will
>Analyze the language and stucture to try to make an
>objective analysis of what an outside reader would
>extract from it. I will then speak a little about the
>poem's s influences, what the poem is actually trying
>to convey, and how effective it is at conveying that.

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