 Reading poetry through Social Class Lens. Who has the power? What clues from the text support that position? What does this suggest about society? How.

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 Reading poetry through Social Class Lens

Who has the power? What clues from the text support that position? What does this suggest about society? How are these two different groups of people represented in the text? Analyze the social effect of the literary work. How would a member of the upper-class see this cartoon? Middle class? Lower class? “Canada is a classless society.” Do you agree or disagree?

 Based on economic and cultural theory of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles, especially on the following claims: o the way people think and behave in society is determined by basic economic factors o Those groups of people who owned and controlled major industries could exploit the rest of the population, through conditions of employment and by forcing their own ideologies onto other social groups  Marxist criticism applies these arguments to the study of literary theories

 Loosely based on Karl Marx’s standpoint on social class  Argue that economic power and social class membership influence our perception of society  The class we belong determines our ECONOMIC, POLITICAL, and SOCIAL advantage o Often in conflict with each other  Our social class impacts our beliefs, values, perceptions, and ways of thinking and feeling  Helps us understand that people from different social classes understand the same circumstances in different ways.  Examines power and advantage in literary texts

 Who has the power/ money? Who does not? What happens as a result?  Explain the literature by revealing economic, class, and ideological determinants of the way the author writes– “educated” versus “uneducated” language.  Explore the way different groups of people are represented in the texts.  What does this say about society in this era? Relate it to Canadian society today.  How does the text itself reproduce certain social beliefs and practices?  Analyze the social effect of the literary work.

Examining portrayal of characters, female and male, upper and lower class Language of text– educated versus uneducated language? Attitude of the author Relationship between characters Comments the author seems to be making about society as a whole

 As a class, we will apply Social Class lens to the following poems: o “Richard Cory” by Edward Arlington Robinson o “To a Poor Old Woman” by William Carlos Williams o “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning (group work)  Due tomorrow: o “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening”- Robert Browning