![]() ![]() Given this, who is the “you” in the poem? What is the speaker’s attitude toward this “you”? What is your opinion of this person? What feeling are you left with at the end of the poem? ![]() ![]() Is this a weakness or a strength? How do you respond to a poem like this? (Hint: read it aloud several times.) In Marilyn Hacker’s translator’s note, she tells us that the title refers to the poet Jean-Paul de Dadelsen and that this poem is Kaddour’s response to Dadelsen’s life and work. It is almost impossible to separate what is being said in this poem from how it’s being said. Hédi Kaddour’s “Jean-Paul de Dadelsen” is particularly difficult. ![]() Introduce each poem by explaining the reasons for choosing it.Īlmost every poem in this issue can be reduced to a prose statement that is, you can say what each poem is about (some are more difficult in this regard than others, admittedly). If you’ve passed out the issues ahead of time, ask each participant to choose a favorite (or most hated) poem to read aloud to the group. After the first reading, ask each participant to nameĪfter the second reading, ask each participant to nameĪfter the third reading, ask each participant to react ![]()
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