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a lyrical poem that expresses the pathos found in his text. In this poem I used negative emotion
to portray his paranoia and unstabilized train of thought. I chose to write a lyrical poem because I
thought it would be the best way to manifest all the emotion that Lu Xun used and to give justice
to his message, a message I did not want to alter. I knew I wanted to do these piece because I feel
like any piece that uses cannibalism will be a powerful one, mainly due to the fact that I find
cannibalism to be a very powerful theme. I have a high appreciation for poetry because I feel like
Switching from short story prose to poem was somewhat smooth but it required a lot of
thinking to form couplets, and in some verses it was very hard to form couplets. That’s why I
took the main themes presented in the prose, such as cannibalism, and squeezed them out into
concentrated couplets that focused on that theme. I also wanted it to seem surrealistic instead of
realistic so that way the audience could get a hint that there is a deeper picture. I did a very
intentionally structure to also shout to the audience what it must’ve been like inside his head. For
instance, I included little to none punctuation to show how this all was one thought that suddenly
kept on changing and changing just how anyone who suffers paranoia feels. I slightly changed
the language to help change the tone to a more cynical, delusional, and emotion one. I feel like
my transformation makes my character seem a bit more crazier and more of a lunatic especially
with the word use and the changing of tone that my poem goes through. I followed to order of
events present in the short story so that my piece can show all the thoughts someone with
paranoia goes through. I also used word font to help certain parts of my poem stand out and
shock the audiences’ state of mind. I feel like these factors would help contribute to my success
His use of symbolism and cannibalism was so important in his piece that I just had to keep it. In
a way my poem enhances the event that is being criticize his piece. Success of transformation
really lies within the audience and their interpretation of my poem. I want my audience to feel
like they are inside the mind of a crazy man, or even how it would feel to be inside the mind of a
“lunatic” who tries to tell people a truth they can not see.. However I feel highly confident that
with the poetic methods and rhetorical tools I used the audience will understand my message and
appreciate my interpretation.
The goal of this assignment is to teach you, in a fun and creative way, to comprehend the
differences and transformation between genres.
A theorist of World Literature, Franco Moretti, applies the naturalist Charles Darwin’s (1809-
1882) theory of evolution onto the history of World Literature. Moretti says that, among the
works of World Literature, “forms just don’t change, but change by always diverging from each
other.” This exercise, will help you grasp the ways that exchange and transformation between
genres happen between literatures, through geography and time.
Also it will help you understand the process of creative writing and by showing you how genres
work, aid you in the process of close reading. The development of these skills are designed to
help you in your final 'Text Analysis' assignment.