Day 29 Thursday 24 August L&L2022

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Leftovers
the lieutenant on shore was taking a part in the morning's work.
That work = his execution!!! Note the extreme detachment. (Or maybe his denial of the job at hand?)

presaging and enforcing tranquility in the men

A reminder that the chant (Ready, Aim, Fire) is calculated to set up / predict and to create / make a reality the sort of peace
soldiers need to be able to fire accurately

How coldly and pitilessly—with what an even, calm intonation, presaging and enforcing tranquility in the men—with what accurately
measured interval fell those cruel words:
Asyndetic tricolon. Underscores how appalled he is that the officer is so coolly engaged in acts that will take his life?

drawn from the barrels, turned in the air, and thrust into their sockets.
Tricolon evokes series of steps taken to fire

will not make that martinet's error a second time

a person who demands complete obedience; a strict disciplinarian. "the woman in charge was a martinet who treated all those
beneath her like children"
He will not be a taskmaster but instead let them fire as they can

The sudden arrest of his motion, the abrasion of one of his hands on the gravel, restored him
He was made sick by the swirling, so once it stops, and he knows he is on solid ground, he feels rejuvenated,

The trees upon the bank were giant garden plants; he noted a definite order in their arrangement,
It is as if they are planted in a fashion designed to evoke beauty and pleasure, like a garden tended by humans?

the wind made in their branches the music of Aeolian harps.

Hyperbaton calls attention to their creation: MUSIC (X is “music to our ears”)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iy7fSxFpAA Firing One of the Deadliest Cannons of the Civil War

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCAYXQ1Z6q4 Civil War - Musket Loading Drill "In-Nine-Times" HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OubvTOHWTms Underwater Bullets at 27,000fps - The Slow Mo Guys 10+
Can a Bullet Have the Same Impact Going Through Water? 2+ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4Y4GUmvPkU

Vocab 25 Back to description/imaginative

POV Qs Interior monologues

MAKE SURE YOU READ THE TIPS FIRST AND AT LEAST ONE SAMPLE.
LW. 600.
SW & RC 400 & ?
DW. 200

Literature-based. Write two interior monologues based on “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” presenting two different views
of the hanging. Choose from among these perspectives: the POV of the captain who gives the order to step aside, the sergeant
who steps aside, a sentinel keeping watch, one of the privates present, Farquhar himself, the Yankee scout who ensnares him, or
Farquhar’s wife, who presumably is informed at a later point in time.
June 2002. The radio drama-script you are writing involves two characters' different viewpoints on an ordinary event which has
dramatically chained both their lives. Each character expresses his or her view through a soliloquy or monologue. Write both pieces
(300-450 words each), trying to capture the difference in their thoughts and feelings

Nov. 2006. Using interior monologues (between 300– 450 words each), write a script for radio called ‘The Two Faces’. In the script you
should write contrasting sections which reveal different sides of the same personality.

Using two interior monologues (300-450 words each) write a script for radio in which two members of the same house offer different
reactions to the arrival of a newcomer to their household. In you writing you should try to bring out their emotions and the reason for
their feelings

3 Write two monologues (between 300–450 words each). One reveals the thoughts and feelings of a parent about the behaviour and attitude of
his or her teenage son or daughter; the other reveals the thoughts and feelings of the teenage son or daughter about the parent. In your writing
you should bring out clear contrasts in character and outlook.

4 Write two contrasting monologues (between 300–450 words each), about a long-standing dispute between two neighbours. In each
monologue, one neighbour expresses her/his thoughts and feelings about the dispute. Create a sense of different attitudes and viewpoints.

Write two contrasting monologues (between 300-450 words each) in which an employee and an employer, who both work in the same
place, express their thoughts and feelings about their own jobs and colleagues. Create different attitudes and viewpoints.

Write two contrasting monologues (between 300–450 words each). In the first monologue the speaker describes a life without money. In
the second monologue the same speaker describes how a substantial win on a lottery has affected her or his life. In your writing create a
sense of contrasting attitudes and emotions.

Write two contrasting monologues (between 300-450 words each). In the first monologue, a young speaker reveals his or her hopes for a
happy and successful life. In the second monologue, the same, but now elderly, speaker reflects on where it all went wrong. In your
writing create a sense of contrasting attitudes and viewpoints.

• Q1. Comment closely on the following passage (beginning to “The sergeant stepped aside”), considering ways in which the writer
creates mood and atmosphere.
• Q2. P. 14, III to p. 15:30 (Read!. . . Aim!.. . Fire!) Comment closely on the following passage, considering ways in which the writer
presents Peyton’s view of the experience.
• Q3 p. 15:31 From “Farquhar dived” to the ending.
Comment closely on the passage, focusing in particular on the ways in which it is an effective ending.

Realism
Summary Realism
The success of Bierce’s surprise ending in “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” depends on the believability of the world he establishes
at the beginning of the story. He carefully lays out all of the details: the setting is northern Alabama, and the time is the Civil War. Bierce
precisely describes the complicated series of beams, planks, and ropes needed to hang Farquhar. Bierce’s descriptions of the positioning
of the soldiers, the way they hold their guns, the minutiae of military ritual and conduct, and the exact terminology and diction all
establish a recognizable world. To give his story authenticity and authority, Bierce drew on his experience fighting for the North during
the Civil War. Such specific details ground readers in the story, and only at the end does Bierce reveal his structural innovations. In the
final section, a fantasy world replaces reality, but this fantasy world is deceptively similar to the real world. Without such elaborate,
realistic detail at the beginning of the story, the final revelation would be far less jarring. If we expected that Farquhar was simply
imagining his escape—that is, if Bierce had failed to provide enough realistic details to make the fantasy world believable—then the
story would lose its shocking effect.
By invoking the gritty details of an enemy’s execution, Bierce participates in a realist tradition that helped to transform popular
conceptions of war. He takes his place among other writers, artists, and photographers of the era who did not romanticize or avoid the
war’s horrific nature. Instead, they presented shockingly detailed portrayals of violence and death. For example, in the novel The Red
Badge of Courage (1895), Stephen Crane, Bierce’s contemporary, brought a startling psychological realism to the story of protagonist
Henry Fleming’s wartime experience. Crane attempted to capture the barbaric ways in which an untrained soldier proved his mettle, and
in doing so he exposed the unenviable side of military life: wanton killing. Similarly, photographer Matthew Brady’s battlefield
photographs brought a harrowing realness to the conflict. The images of fly-strewn, bloody corpses stripped the war of its glory and
underscored the high cost of victory. The reality these artists brought to the public forced a new realization on many Americans. They
saw that lives were often senselessly sacrificed in the name of an abstract cause.

Ivor Gurney 1890-1937 poet & composer, partic. songs

Studied music 1911 Royal College of Music
1813 first breakdown
1915 WWI Gloucestershire Regiment
Writes poetry seriously; sounds to friend musicologist-critc
1917 first book Severn & Somme
1919 2nd War’s Embers
Gassed and hospitalized
1918 2nd breakdown (break-up); threatens suicide
Honourable discharge (“shell shock”)
1932 family declares insane “delusional insanity”
15 years in asylums
8 collections of verse (100s), 2 plays, music (300+ songs)