Today, I really impressed by Douglass's apology. 'being illiterate' is that I usually expereinced when I was young especially when traveling. It is kind of scary to be illiterate in certain society. It made me have feeling isolated.
And that is also a reason that I start studying English by my self. What I could see as much as I know. The more I learned, the more I could get. In my first travel, every thing was mass. All explanation was in English, so that I could not even get where to stop on public transportation. Without my father, I would have become a lost child. But, after studying English, 'going abroad' become more interesting. I could find what I want to see by myself, I could go where I wanted to go. Such a great experience!
I'm still not good at English though, I say to myself that I'll try hard to study English so that I could see, learn, and experience more thing next time.
2008년 11월 4일 화요일
touchstone :)
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
- Shakespeare, sonnet 18 –
As soon as the professor said “pick your touch stone”, I thought of those lines which are above. I learn that sonnet a year before, and because of that sonnet I decided to study English literature actually. I was so attracted by Shakespeare. Therefore the professor’s mentioning about this poem last class was very coincident and also very meaningful to me. While I read that sonnet, what I first thought about is that “I want to be the person that Shakespeare wrote a poem for.” How somebody can be praised like that. After few minutes thinking about that, I was impressed again by the ability of literature. What literature is doing is making me think about a beauty of a woman who lived thousands years ago. She is still alive in the poem and nothing else could preserve her beauty but poem.
During the class I learned that literature is imitation of nature. And I felt like applying it in this poem too. When I read this poem in past, I just focused on how powerful the literature is. But now, I also thought about that this poem reflects reality. The desire which try to protect the beauty of one person would be occurred from the limit of reality. What I want to say is that in reality, time always destroys something and human cannot protect it from time. This would make the desire to preserve beauty which is something idealistic and soon disappeared.
In my point of view, this looked pursue “beauty” which is easily explained as a purpose of literature, but at the same time it looked contain dark side of reality.
Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
- Shakespeare, sonnet 18 –
As soon as the professor said “pick your touch stone”, I thought of those lines which are above. I learn that sonnet a year before, and because of that sonnet I decided to study English literature actually. I was so attracted by Shakespeare. Therefore the professor’s mentioning about this poem last class was very coincident and also very meaningful to me. While I read that sonnet, what I first thought about is that “I want to be the person that Shakespeare wrote a poem for.” How somebody can be praised like that. After few minutes thinking about that, I was impressed again by the ability of literature. What literature is doing is making me think about a beauty of a woman who lived thousands years ago. She is still alive in the poem and nothing else could preserve her beauty but poem.
During the class I learned that literature is imitation of nature. And I felt like applying it in this poem too. When I read this poem in past, I just focused on how powerful the literature is. But now, I also thought about that this poem reflects reality. The desire which try to protect the beauty of one person would be occurred from the limit of reality. What I want to say is that in reality, time always destroys something and human cannot protect it from time. This would make the desire to preserve beauty which is something idealistic and soon disappeared.
In my point of view, this looked pursue “beauty” which is easily explained as a purpose of literature, but at the same time it looked contain dark side of reality.
Edward Said
My book, orientalism, is that western's the inhumainzation of the estern by intentional emphasis of difference between western and estern.
I made an apporoach with 3 ways.
1) the regulation and system of social inner strucuture is formed by elites' discourse. So, by accepting this point of view, I argured that any history is not standardized but something dynamic. The relation between imperialism and orientalism can be explained in this context.
2) the second hegemony is about holding a general public by an act of pursuation. And it's dpne unconciously. It makes subultern regard the surpression as a natural and anchangable thing.
3) the division between western's epistemology and estern's ontology originated from the contrast of dichotomy of self and others. And it developed as division between 'development/barbarity' 'advanced/uncivilized' 'rational/irrational'. This provided a foundation and excuse to western's imperialist for occupying the 3rd world under the name of civilization.
What I want to say is that we have to call in question about the history which is interpreted at the point of western, in order to avoid ideological consumption that is accepting western's hegemony and fallacy as a truth.
I made an apporoach with 3 ways.
1) the regulation and system of social inner strucuture is formed by elites' discourse. So, by accepting this point of view, I argured that any history is not standardized but something dynamic. The relation between imperialism and orientalism can be explained in this context.
2) the second hegemony is about holding a general public by an act of pursuation. And it's dpne unconciously. It makes subultern regard the surpression as a natural and anchangable thing.
3) the division between western's epistemology and estern's ontology originated from the contrast of dichotomy of self and others. And it developed as division between 'development/barbarity' 'advanced/uncivilized' 'rational/irrational'. This provided a foundation and excuse to western's imperialist for occupying the 3rd world under the name of civilization.
What I want to say is that we have to call in question about the history which is interpreted at the point of western, in order to avoid ideological consumption that is accepting western's hegemony and fallacy as a truth.
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