Assignment 3

1.) Study a poem we haven't read in Chapter 9 "Art and the Artist" (except for "Prufrock"). Thoroughly explain how tone is created through one specific poetic device.

2.) Choose one of the following statements, explain why it expresses a belief about art that is similar to yours:

"Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in."  --Amy Lowell

"In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption." --Raymond Chandler

"The artist speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives, to our sense of pity and beauty, and pain." --Joseph Conrad

"It doesn't make much difference how the pain is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement." --Jackson Pollock

"Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time.  It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced.  It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden . . . it is the best evidence we can have our our dignity." --E. M. Forster
(Adapted from exercise 4 on page 1163 of our text.)


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