Thursday, February 14, 2008
Body Parts!
During class today while watching Patricia's video, I was wondering why Poe always seems so consumed with making his narrators obsessed with a certain bodily aspect of a women/man/other character, that ultimately leads to the narrators madness, death etc. In each of the stories this week we have narrator insanely focused on teeth, eyes, hair or what ever the case may be. I personally think that it is a huge contribution of the the visual culture and audience that Poe is writing for. What do you all think? I don't want to be right on this one becasue my idea is boring!
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Yea! Thanks for blogging this idea, and also I'm glad someone mentioned in class that teeth are a symbol for power, especially in terms of dream interpretation.
When I was researching all week, all the Poe inspired artwork I saw was themed with darkness and nighttime. Poe and his writing has some kind of correlation with the world of dreams, which I guess is basically our own world of the subconscious thoughts which we have but don't know that we have. I guess what our conscious mind experiences is interpreted by our subconscious and translated into our dreams.
Part of Poe's reputation concentrates his drug and alcohol use.
We know he drank, and we all know how drinking affects our consciousness, lets not beat around the bush, we have all been there. (Except for me I'm too classy to get drunk.)
So how accurate are these supposedly universal symbols related to the body? I checked out some books from the library one of them happens to be Reading Poe Reading Freud, thanks for bringing this up Corinne
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