Essay Questions

What is the consequence of Paradox in “Blind Curse”?

The speaker asserts, “for those two seconds/and they would be forever.” Equating two seconds to forever is paradoxical. This paradox explicates the potency of Imaginary Order. Exploring Imaginary Order for two seconds can bid someone enormous gratification. Also, the speaker observes, “You just might be significant/but you might not be anything.” One cannot be significant and ‘not be anything’ instantaneously. Here, a paradox validates the incompatible illusions that may crop up when one has absorbed the Imaginary Order.

What inferences can be drawn from the line: “Busted boy. Busted Indians. Busted Lives. Busted again,” using the Critical Race Theory?

First, the prospect of black boys being busted by police is, unfortunately, seen as astronomically common. Second, minorities such as Indians are also susceptible to the haphazard police busts. Therefore, the correlation between race/gender ( male) and arbitrary police busts is positive.

Describe the Ecocriticism conclusions from “ Culture and the Universe.”

The canyon is a Classic Pastoral that opens humans to the cosmic culture. The speaker’s mediation in the canyon permits one to make deductions regarding the intersection between the universe and culture. The canyon is soothing for the speaker pronounces: “I lean upon spins me/ wordless and silent/ to the reach of the stars/ and to the heavens within.” Being in the canyon qualifies the speaker to associate with stars and heaven (which is fragments of the human culture).For that reason, nature is a fundamental constituent in the culture of humanity.