ENGL1090 Reading Summary and Musgrave Q&A: Summary and Reflection
Reading Summary
You must pick two from the remaining three required readings available in the Course Reading list in Blackboard.
[Musgrave, David. "Genres of landscape in Australian poetry."
Five bells
12.4 (2005): 10.
Xerri, Daniel. "‘We Need to Demystify Poetry’: An Interview with David Musgrave."
Symposia Melitensia. Vol. 12. 2016.
Harrison, Martin. "The act of writing and the act of attention."
Text
(2013).]
Referencing details: (1 mark)
Summary of the article (100 words) [2 marks]
Challenges: what did you find most difficult about the article? (NOTE: this section is asking you to think about concepts and ideas that may be new to you or that you have to reconsider and think about differently, NOT how the article was written) [100 words] [2 marks]
Insights: what did you find most interesting about this article i.e., what ideas/thoughts did it raise that you are interested by? How can you relate this to your reading of one or both of the text? [100 words] [2 marks]
You will lose marks for incorrect in-text referencing, grammatical errors and poor sentence structure.
Musgrave Q &A: Summary and Reflection (
10% 400 words)
Summary:
2 marks (context and identified theme). In this section you will summarise Musgrave’s guest talk. You may either summarise the entire talk or pick one or two main ideas that he raised.
Musgrave began by expressing the difficulty of theorising about or defining “voice”. In theories of language, voice does not get discussed. In the act/moment of him hearing Maidment’s voice posthumously, he had to consider how does one describe a voice to convey its layered qualities. With reference to a new born baby, Musgrave made the point that “voice” is a fundamental aspect of being human: “we start with a cry” (Musgrave, class interview). He then linked this initial voice/cry with the innate desire for another, the call to another, which for me, reshaped the idea of the “other”. In the act of reading poetry, familiar and unfamiliar sensations can contribute to the plurality of voices being spoken and heard: “Bringing into contact different senses of what it is to be alive” (Musgrave, class interview). The power of oral voices, here and there, past and present, physical and metaphysical, contributes to the paradox of “writing” poetry. It is an articulation of connection and points: one voice might sound unitary but it is a collection of many. It is a part of a cultural conversation as well as layered ideological ones. For example the image of a waratah can be read as a national icon or as a sign from Country of the season to do something. “Voice is everywhere. The world is alive cause we hear it” (Musgrave, class interview)
Question: You need to either ask Musgrave a question or record the question someone else asks him.
I mark
Response:
You need to record his response to this question.
2 marks
Reflection:
3 marks: (thread; link to poetry; what stood out for you)
2 marks for writing style, spelling etc
· The 400 words can be distributed in any way
· You don’t need to reference him for this assessment but you will for the final essay if you are using something he said
Reference: Musgrave, David. Q and A with David Musgrave ENGL1090.date. Class Interview.