Blog Report 3 - Zach Vance
In the last two blog reports that I wrote, I examined "The Lottery" and "Slaughterhouse Five" and gave my own interpretations of their meaning, somewhat in the style of the reader response school of criticism. Overall, however, I haven't directly related either of these pieces of literature to a form of criticism or a passage within Robert Dale Parker's handbook. In this report I hope to use passages and ideas from the textbook and connect them to a passage from the Walt Whitman poem "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry." At the very beginning of the poem, Whitman (or whoever the narrator might be) says "Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face! Clouds of the west-sun there half an hour high-I see you also face to face." Here he gives personification to natural phenomena by claiming they have faces, with which they can be "face to face" with the narrator. Immediately following these lines is the sentence "Crowds of men and women a