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| Note: this is an actual mummy at the Mebee-Gerrer Museum in Shawnee, which is from the period that many of Cavafy's poems take place (around 400-600 AD): go see it if you've never been! |
We won't have time to read through the entire volume of poems, but feel free to keep reading yourself--you can use any poem in the book for your Proper Paper #1 assignment. However, for next time, I want to focus on a specific kind of poem that Cavafy excelled at, the elegy or epitaph.
* Since Nine O'Clock
* Aristobolous
* Cesarion* Nero's Term
* In the Harbour Town
* Tomb of Lanes
* Tomb of Iases
* Tomb of Ignatius
* In the Month of Athyr
* For Ammones
* Aemilianus Monae
* Grey
* Days of 1903
Only ONE question this time, but I want you to answer it for TWO different poems:
Q: Since each one of these poems is an epitaph about someone (or something) that has died, what is it that remains after death? How does Cavafy memorialize the remains of someone who once lived? What does he want us to see or remember? And how does this relate to some of the great themes of his work that we discussed in class (or, if you don't come to class, how does this relate to another poem that you read in the earlier selections)?
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