Tony Hoagland What Narcissism Means To Me #2
BLOG POST #6 [10 Points]In his review of Tony Hoagland, Scott Weiss says:
In reading What Narcissism Means to Me, feelings we often keep in the dark are brought to light and we become unburdened as one-by-one the poems lay bare our vulnerability and culpability on an individual level, and in doing so, they join us to the community of Americans as a whole.
Provide two instances in the book that you see Hoagland doing what Scott Weiss suggests. In each instance discuss how Hoagland deals with "these feelings we often keep in the dark." Is there a particular strategy that Hoagland employs when he deals with these feelings?
posted by Tim Kahl @ Sunday, September 24, 2006
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One line I find very pertinent to this idea of what makes Americans unified is the following from the poem America: "And I look at the student with his acne and cell phone and phony ghetto clothes and think, "I am alseep in America too..." This same boy, who describes America as a "maximum security prison" is "turning up the volume," or beit "the security" of this country through feeding the consumerism which America feeds and grows from. This kid is a pure consumer with his rap clothes, blue hair and cell phone. The idea is that we bash America and all its "evils" yet we all participate in its survival. Thus, this ideosyncracy unifies us. (Quite a messed up way to be unified, huh?)
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