1) p. 321 quest. 4
2) p. 323 The Swan quest. 3
3) p. 323 Poems in Prose quest. 3
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(1) The city in "To a Passer-By" is described as being crowded and busy. "Amid the deafening traffic of the town." This emphasizes the point that when the main character saw someone, he knew it was love at first site. Despite being in a crowded city with thousands of people, he found someone he knew he would never forget. However, they would never get a chance to be together, also because of the city. "Neither knows where the other goes or lives." By chance, he just saw her in a crowded city, and despite wanting them to be together, they never could, because of the crowded city.
ReplyDelete(2) The swan in "The Swan" is symbolic of the author/poet. The poem mentions how Paris has greatly changed from what it once was. "The old Paris is gone..." The poet prefers old Paris and misses it as opposed to the new Paris. The poet must have left old Paris, excited and happy to be seeing the world. The swan had "escaped out of his cage." The poet thought that by leaving Paris, he would be moving on to new and exciting things. Instead, he finds himself lonely and missing Paris greatly. "Lifting his beak at the gutter as if to talk, And bathing his wings in the sifting city dust, His heart full of some cool remembered lake."
(3) In "To a Passer-By," the city takes more of a side role. The poem focuses on finding love, in a crowded city. In "Crowds," the focus is put on finding yourself amongst a crowd. The crowd changes based on what you want it to be. "The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxications in this universal communion. The man who loves to loose himself enjoys feverish delights..." Finding love is nothing compared to the feeling of being a part of the city crowd in "Crowds."
Riddhi Shah
1. The city represents the suddenness and frenzy of new love. The feelings the lovers are having are represented through the rushing traffic and fast moving crowds of the city. The different emotions coming and going so quickly like the people that pass them on the street. Charles Baudelaire’s line, “the deafening traffic of the town” is like the sound of the lover’s hearts beating when they see each other.
ReplyDelete2. The swan symbolizes the beauty of the old world and the new lost and sorrow. The beautiful swan represents how clean the world was before the Industrial Revolution. Before the coal stained the streets and the living conditions worsened. The state that the swan is in, “Web-footed on the dry sidewalk, Dragged his white plumes over the cobblestones;” also represents how society have fallen, from living off the land and doing labor ourselves. Now there are machines and there is no room for peaceful beauty. The line, “the swan escaped out of his cage” suggests that the new life of inventions has closed our minds off from the nature we have lost.
3. “To a passer-by” describes the city crowds as loud and crowded and “Crowds” describes is a place where you can let your mind wonder and masquerade as someone else. In the sonnet “To a passer-by” the crowd seems so be a unified frenzy of traffic and people. No one sticking out everyone just blends into the noise of the back ground. In the sonnet “Crowds” people are more distinctive they wear their own personality in the way the walk and talk. In the poem, “The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself or someone else, as he chooses.” One idea of a crowd is that people are all the same and they contribute to the crazy background noise of the city. The other sonnet shows the individualism people show and the different faces you can put on.
1) The city reflects the pace of the love story. Baudelaire begins the sonnet with a reference to the busyness of town life; “Amid the deafening traffic of the town”. It compares to the love story because like the love shown in the sonnet, life is sudden and unexpected, busy and full of traffic as everything is changing and rearranging second by second.
ReplyDelete2) The swan symbolises beauty, loss and sorrow. In the poem it connects us to the feelings of Andromache and what she is evidently going through as the grieving widow. Ultimately the swan juxtaposes the broken image we are shown of the city. The Swan is beauty while the city is broken and the old is decaying.
3) In the poem To a Passer-By describes the crowds in the city as “traffic”, busy and hectic. It can be seen that every day is such a frenzy that often so much that is experienced is experienced in a second and the view that he can express his love with one look: they make eye contact, but it is quickly broken, as they must each head their separate ways. In Crowds is describes crowds as a thing that can be enjoyed by those who have the scope and imagination to see it. It is describe as a place where imagination can run wild and you can become whoever you want to be with whatever personality you desire.
janae K
1) In the poem "To a Passer-By" Baudelaire uses love at first sight with a woman to symbolize his love for the city. He states that through all the traffic and bustling crowds and the older run-down buildings there is still something beautiful about the city. These older buildings and everything that is happening in the city is what he proclaimed was like love at first sight.
ReplyDelete2)The swan in this poem symbolizes the past. In this poem Baudelaire references how the city used to look in the past and how it looks in the present. When he sees the swan he starts to remember how beautiful Paris used to be and how enchanting everything was. Although many things have aged just like the way a swan ages he is still able to remember how Paris used to look and remembers it for the beauty that it once had.
3) In the poem "Crowds" Baudelaire says that those who cannot remove themselves from the city by just sitting back and watching how the crowds and people move and interact cannot fully appreciate how beautiful the city truly is. Those who are able to find themselves and be alone in the crowds to simply just look at what is around them and gain full appreciation for their surroundings are the men that make the most out of what they see. Even with the bustling crowds those who are able to remove themselves and appreciate the people and the city itself are the ones that can really love the city for what it is.
In the poem "To a Passer-By" Baudelaire says that to any ordinary person the city is just a city. It's filled with buildings, people, traffic, etc. He says that to these ordinary people who just walk through the city to get where they need to be don't have the appreciation for the city the way those who are able to sit back and enjoy what is going on around them. To those people there is nothing but a big city with tall buildings and crowds of people.
By using the word “amid” the woman seems to be a solitary element in the poem, a love lost. The woman seems to be a relief to the life of the city, as the description of the city seems to use words such as deafening, while the woman seems beautiful yet in mourning. Yet even still as the man sees the woman he is unable to catch her, so he watches her from afar as she slowly fades away
ReplyDeleteThe swan symbolizes a past where he, at one point, would be able to float in a lake and fly freely through blue skies. The swan likes toward the skies asking for water and asking for things that he once would have had, but to no avail the city has completely taken over nature.
The author seems to differentiate between crowds and “crowds”. He describes two types of crowds one that sounds like the normal everyday crowd and one that sounds like the crowd in your had, the multitude of thoughts that go through it everyday. Passer-bys are just thoughts that come and go in the mind of the person.
1)I think the city is used in the beginning of the poem to emphasize the woman's beauty. Baudelaire is saying that even over the deafening sounds of the city, and everything that is going on, the woman's beauty still stands out above everything.
ReplyDelete2)The swan symbolizes the effect that humans have on the rest of the natural world when we build over nature and ruin habitats. This swan, like any animal, is powerless and can just watch and rot in the city dust, while humans destroy all other habitats while creating one for themeselves that they find suitable.
3)In "To a Passer-by" the crowd is seen as something in the with an almost beauty, because of the way he describes it. In "Crowds" Bautelaire describes the upsides of solitude.
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