Use the film to help you respond to the prompts on the handout.
(Given in class. Pasted below.)
Be prepared to discuss in class.
Critical
Viewing of Polis is This,
a
documentary directed by Henry Ferrini
BEFORE VIEWING
Define Polis:
WHILE VIEWING
Identify some of the places shown in the film
Identify some of the people in the film
Identify some of the poems used in the film
WHILE VIEWING AND
AFTER VIEWING JOT DOWN IDEAS ABOUT
Olson’s Childhood Relationship
to Gloucester
The effect on Olson of the U.S. dropping the
Nuclear Bomb & the Discovery of Buchenwald and other Concentration Camps
Olson’s View of Wholistic
Knowledge and Wholistic Education (“The Present” a course at Black Mountain
College)
Olson’s View of Writing
Poetry (Projective Verse; Robert Creeley: “we began to respond to what was
happening…a much more active way of proceeding”; “form is never more than an extension
of content”)
Olson’s Cosmology (study of
the universe and man’s place in it) (Robert Creeley: “men could care about the
kind of world they live in…why kind of world are men and women caring to
have.”)
Olson’s View of changes in Gloucester in the 1960s
and our role—the citizen’s role—in those changes
The implication of Olson’s
thinking upon our relationship to our polis (immediate world) and cosmos (large
world) today
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