Unassessed essay 1
Choose one of the following essay titles or topics and write 1500 words. The deadline is the seminar of week 8, term 1; please submit in hard copy only. The essay is formative and can be used as the basis of your assessed essay/s and/or exam answers.
- Write a commentary on one keyword listed on www.wapf-posts.tumblr.com or from A Heidegger Dictionary.
- Close read one poem from the module in relation to one of the keywords listed on www.wapf-posts.tumblr.com or from A Heidegger Dictionary.
- Discuss Heidegger's proposition that poetry is a way of receiving from the world, a 'creating' or letting things appear.
- Write an essay on the relationship between 'thinking' and 'poeticizing'.
- Hopkins describes the access poetry gives to being in relation to 'inscape' and 'instress'. Discuss.
- Draw out the implications between loss and homecoming in relation to Heidegger's essays on Hölderlin and/or one of Hölderlin's poems.
- Comment on the relationship between poiesis and technology.
- 'Poetically / man dwells on this earth' (Hölderlin, 'In Lovely Blue'). Do you agree?
- Write a commentary on what Neruda calls 'impure poetry'.
- 'All art . . . is essentially poetry' ('The Origin of the Work of Art'). Discuss.
- 'Why are their beings at all instead of nothing?' ('Introduction to Metaphysics'). Discuss.
- 'The fact that the world becomes picture at all is what distinguishes the essence of the new age. The world appears as re-presentation 'for man'. In the classical age, to the contrary man is the one who is looked upon by that which is. Put simply: the gods or God used to look upon us and we had a perception that they he watched us; now we look at the world and we understand the world as that which we can see' ('The Age of the World Picture').