Invictus by South Salem Chamber Womens Choir
Sooooo beautiful!

HEMINGWAY/FITZGERALD REWRITE Google Doc
Some of you might want to do your rewrite over the weekend, even though it's not due until Thur/Fri the 14/15 (Sorry 1st period. I said Monday, but it's really Thursday)

Prufrock.
What is the overwhelming question?
Truman Show quote: How's it going to end?

T.S. Eliot's poem expresses the sentiments of the modern man living in a fractured world, the world of the Lost Generation.
Eliot's poem was pivotal and is largely responsible for the change in perspective of artists, a change that remained for decades and which, to a large extent, is still found in much of the art produced in the world. Whether or not we can say that Salinger was influenced by this poem, but the sense of disillusionment surely impacted Salinger. If the world was able to partly rise from the directionlessness and hopelessness of WWI, WWII broke the camel's back. Salinger himself was in the Normandy invasion and saw hundereds of his comrades killed. Doubtless, this influenced his thinking and is seen in Holden's bleak view of the world.

Another poet who expresses the futility of war is the Frenchman Jacques Prevert.
Here's his poem Barbara.
Barbara side by side French with English translation
If you speak French and would like to work on your accent, listen to this reading of the poem and pause frequently to repeat. This in one of the BEST ways to improve your pronunciation in any language!!
Barbara reading