In the past two weeks, we began our unit on Tragedy, which I have been looking forward to quite a lot. I'm not a masochist or anything, but..... okay, maybe I'm a little bit of a literary masochist, but I'm just like every other teenager who read a little too much as a child. And who isn't a little bit? It's probably the reason tragedy is so popular. I don't want to use up all of my hypotheses about tragedy here, though. Now that I have two blogs, I have to be responsible with my delegation of ideas.
The two poems that we studied this week were "The Ballad of Birmingham" and "A Pathedy of Manners." After reading both of these wonderful poems, I realized that I am a little confused on the concept of tragedy. Does tragedy writing have to be fictional? If not, one could argue that both of these poems were tragic. A Pathedy of Manners is (probably) fictional, while the Randall poem was based on a true event. Does that mean that it has more tragic resonance? It did with me. And, as Miller wrote in his essay, tragedies can happen to the common man, as well as subjects that posses a royalty-like stature such as Kay's subject in "A Pathedy..."
Until next week,
Mia
The two poems that we studied this week were "The Ballad of Birmingham" and "A Pathedy of Manners." After reading both of these wonderful poems, I realized that I am a little confused on the concept of tragedy. Does tragedy writing have to be fictional? If not, one could argue that both of these poems were tragic. A Pathedy of Manners is (probably) fictional, while the Randall poem was based on a true event. Does that mean that it has more tragic resonance? It did with me. And, as Miller wrote in his essay, tragedies can happen to the common man, as well as subjects that posses a royalty-like stature such as Kay's subject in "A Pathedy..."
Until next week,
Mia