Formulate your responses to the following 4 points and post your responses
to the FTP site by Wed.

1.) Read the poem all the way through and describe what the poem is about (use
one paragraph).

2.) Read the poem again; this time list all the images and state what kind of image
each is.

[Images are words that refer to sensory experiences such as "black cat" (visual
image); "slicing onions" (vision and smell); "greasy hair" (vision and touch);
"howling dog" (both a visual and auditory image); "break a fingernail" (visual image and bodily sensation).]

3.) Take the images in the second stanza and describe the scene with as much
accuracy as possible. Does this stanza paint a picture? Describe what is going
on with the father, son, and mother.

4.) Briefly, describe how you read the poem. For example, did you read it from left
to right, from one line down to the next? Did you pause at the end of the
lines? Did punctuation make a difference in how you read the poem? Did any
of the lines make you stop reading for a while? Did the groupings of the lines
make any difference in your reading of the poem?

* Responses must be posted to the FTP site by Wed.

If you are interested in the reading process, here are some additional sites of interest
in relation to Wolfgang Iser (philosopher and literary critic):

1.) Wolfgang Iser and the Reading Process:
http://odin.english.udel.edu/teague/iser.html

2.) Individuality in Readers of the Work of Art:
http://www.ankiewicz.com/artist/ThesisOverview.html

3.) Iser on Translatability:
http://elias.ens.fr/Surfaces/vol4/iser.html