Text analysis

21 Abril 2016, 10:00 • Isabel Maria da Cunha Rosa Fernandes

Analysis and interpretation of W. H. Auden's poem "Musée des Beaux Arts". The notion of 'ekphrasis'. Comments on the poem and on related paintings by P. Brueghel, namely Landscape with the Fall of Icarus.

Analysis and interpretation of "Bat" by D. H. Lawrence.

Text analysis

19 Abril 2016, 10:00 • Isabel Maria da Cunha Rosa Fernandes

Analysis and interpretation of Frank O'Hara's poem "Why I am not a painter". The artisitic creative process. The importance of metamorphosis. Blurring of boundaries between literature and painting.

A.S. Byatt's on portraits in words and visual portraits - material diferences and differences in the reading protocols.

Text analysis

14 Abril 2016, 10:00 • Isabel Maria da Cunha Rosa Fernandes

Analysis and interpretation of Ezra Pound's poem "A Pact". The notion of intertextuality.

William Blake's "The Tiger" - analysis and interpretation.

Text analysis

12 Abril 2016, 10:00 • Isabel Maria da Cunha Rosa Fernandes

'This is just to say...' - Analysis and interpretation of the poem by William Carlos Williams. Reading poetry and the power of convention: the importance of titles and the graphic layout. Reading as co-creation.

Analysis and interpretation of Wilfred Owen's poem "Anthem for Doomed Youth". From triviality to tragedy.

Text analysis

7 Abril 2016, 10:00 • Isabel Maria da Cunha Rosa Fernandes

Analysis and interpretatio of William Shakespeare's sonnet CXXX, 'My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun...'. The use of litotes in the poem. The importance of empirical sensory experience for Renaissance culture. Challenging convention.