great works ii – 2850 jta 12:25-2:05: love letters from the world

Yes, you all make very astute comments about the connections between these works: There is a sense of Absurdism, of course, and Nihilism (Stephen’s nice phrase, a humanity “caught in an unsolvable situation); a sense of literal and metaphorical emptiness; Fritz’s nice comment about “song” and the inference about the hope that music (and art) offer; the play between light and dark, entrapment, despair, hopelessness, a frozen, lifeless world, the memory of a once beautiful and viable world.

I’ve copied the poem into our blog space, and I want to continue discussing this on Wed. (so just bring Vol. F, not E). Also, please remember to bring thesis statements for the Final Project.