The+Lives+of+Animals


 * Oral Sparks Notes-gibi ("-gibi" is a Turkish suffix roughly akin to "-ish" or "-like" in English; it's closer to what I mean here) **

Go to the Collect folder and find your name and section on the document called LIVES OF ANIMALS GLOSSARY WORDS. (You might want to take the color off to read the material more easily.) Search out the "answers" to a **Glossary** section of the Sparks Notes-gibi material we're putting together. **Today you need to run through the "answers" with the rest of the class.** Please research via the Internet or other resources available to you in the classroom, discuss with others if it helps--but //get done!!//-- and dash your findings on a new page. Finally, link them back to the material below on this page. (You know the drill: if you name your new page as it's listed below, it'll be easier to link eventually.) During the discussion, if any new information or ideas become available, you may want to change your page, so keep your laptops until the end of this section of class.

15-16 David 16-18 Tiia 18-20 Kathy 21-22 Cliff 22-23 Kara 23-25 Jeffrey 25~27Sehoon 27-29 Alexandria 30-36Corrie 36-41 Aurore 41-44 Angela 45-50 Kun Yang 50-52Elizabeth 52-57 Patrick 58-64 Scott 64-end Alan

=The Poets and the Animals= What do you think? Do these two poets see animals fundamentally differently? What characterizes their differences? Does any of it matter?

"The Panther"
His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else. It seems to him there are a thousand bars; and behind the bars, no world.

As he paces in cramped circles, over and over, the movement of his powerful soft strides is like a ritual dance around a center in which a mighty will stands paralyzed.

Only at times, the curtain of the pupils lifts, quietly--. An image enters in, rushes down through the tensed, arrested muscles, plunges into the heart and is gone.  ==- Rainer Maria Rilke    ==

"The Jaguar"
The apes yawn and adore their fleas in the sun. The parrots shriek as if they were on fire, or strut <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Like cheap tarts to attract the stroller with the nut. <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Fatigued with indolence, tiger and lion <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lie still as the sun. The boa-constrictor’s coil <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Is a fossil. Cage after cage seems empty, or <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Stinks of sleepers from the breathing straw. <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It might be painted on a nursery wall. <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But who runs like the rest past these arrives <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">At a cage where the crowd stands, stares, mesmerized, <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As a child at a dream, at a jaguar hurrying enraged <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Through prison darkness after the drills of his eyes <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On a short fierce fuse. Not in boredom— <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The eye satisfied to be blind in fire, <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">By the bang of blood in the brain deaf the ear— <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">He spins from the bars, but there’s no cage to him <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">More than to the visionary his cell: <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">His stride is wildernesses of freedom: <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The world rolls under the long thrust of his heel. <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Over the cage floor the horizons come. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">