Subject : # 14217 English Poetry XIX y
XX Grupo A
Student´s name : Pitarch Ibáñez, Gloria
First paper
Title of the paper : “Keats’ Nightingale:
Beauty and Death at the same instant”
Author: Keats, John
Abstract : The aim of this paper is to analyse the poem
“Ode to a Nightingale” by John Keats. First of all I will study its
form and its content to do a reflection on the meaning of the literary figure
of the Nightingale and of the other meanings the poet tries to express in his
Ode, or what I think he tries to. Later on I will put the poem in relation with
Keat’s life and his other works and
with the historical context in which he lived, to end with a commentary
of the poem’s relevance and validity in our days.
Second paper
Title of the paper:
“A Victorian Woman’s portrait through the
eyes of who is looking at her”
Topic: Women as
Subject in Victorian Art: Representations of Women
Abstract: When asked to give a paper I
thought it might be interesting to offer some observations on the
representations of women in the English Art of the Victorian era, and
specifically, on their election depending on the sexual genre of the author. I
did not intend to carry out a detailed analysis of this extense issue, but
simply to indicate some facets and accents of it which have caught my
attention. What follows, then , is rather than a fully study of the wide
subject of the portrait of Victorian Women in art, a reality which itself is a
tremendous complexity, a way to deepen in the women’s representation but
looking for a thought on the trascendency of art and its role in the genre
question.
Auto-evaluation: Thinking about the subject at this moment, when we
are getting to an end, which is, actually, a short stop in the middle of the
way, and about my work during that time and its results, its consequences, I
have the impression that I have worked in a continuous way since the first day,
but, most importantly, I have found motivation while I was working and reading,
which for me is the most important thing, over all in a difficult and almost
unknown literary genre for me from which I was afraid, until that moment. But
at the end, I have learned to enjoy poetry, and, thus, Poetry, the subject
itself. I know this is just the
beginning, and I am aware that i could have work harder, which is always
possible. But, as I have said, that is just a pause.
Analizing
my work in the two papers, I think in the first one I didn’t spend the
time needed to do it, and the result was a paper disorganized in its form and
content. However, this time, not
only had I have more time to prepare it, but also a clearer idea of what to do
and how to do it. That’s why probably I have enjoyed more this second
paper, because I was aware of my freedom of choice, and I have had the
possibility to choose the issue that I like most. Nevertheless, I have the
feeling that I have left the poetry world and entered a more general one, that of
all arts, which may be too far away from our subject.
Academic year 2007/2008
© a.r.e.a./Dr.Vicente Forés López
© Gloria Pitarch Ibáñez
glopi@alumni.uv.es
Universitat de València Press