EN108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Seasonal Affective Disorder, T. S. Eliot, Sprung Rhythm
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What we mean often when we say climate change . Humans are the biggest influence for climate variability. 2018: we are in a moment of climate change. Seasonal affective disorder (seasons affect your mood) Weather affects how we interact with the things around us and often how we feel about our lives/selves. Juxtaposition: main guy visualizing getting back to camp (pg. Means the power to control one"s destiny. Given the sense to what is to come. Extremes did not lead him to use common knowledge and consequently survive. Main character: numbers man, naive, makes series of mistakes. Jackiondon sets his characters at odds with nature and the extreme forces. Last lines don"t allow us to sympathize or mourn. Rational thought and instinct (animal or otherwise) Humans at odds with environment (nature will prevail) The darkling thrush and sonnet 19 (late 19th century) Link between slave trade and animal cruelty. Whatever their song, they leave essence on nature.
