CI 350

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William Faulkner

• By Brett Sanders
• CI 350

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History of William Faulkner

• Born in 1897 in Oxford Mississippi
• Served in Canadian air force
• Wrote Dark Laughter in 1924
• Won Nobel prize in 1949
• Died in 1962

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William, Young and Old
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Most famous works

• Barn Burning (1939)
• A Rose for Emily (1931)
• The Sound and the Fury
• Satoris (1929)
• As I lay dying (1929)

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Complete Series of Works
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Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Excerpt

• I feel that this award was not made to me as
  a man, but to my work - a life's work in the
  agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for
  glory and least of all for profit, but to create
  out of the materials of the human spirit
  something which did not exist before. So this
  award is only mine in trust. It will not be
  difficult to find a dedication for the money part
  of it commensurate with the purpose and
  significance of its origin. But I would like to
  do the same with the acclaim too, by using this
  moment as a pinnacle from which I might be
  listened to by the young men and women already
  dedicated to the same anguish and travail, among
  whom is already that one who will some day stand
  here where I am standing.

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Basic Writing Structure

• Introduction- thesis
• Body
• Conclusion

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Poetry Structures

• Open form No rhyme or meter
• Sonnet 14 lines
• Ballad Song
• Haiku seventeen syllables organized into
  three unrhymed lines of five, seven,
  and five syllables

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Sample Poetry by William Shakespeare

• Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?Thou art
  more lovely and more temperateRough winds do
  shake the darling buds of May,And summer's lease
  hath all too short a dateSometime too hot the
  eye of heaven shines,And often is his gold
  complexion dimmed,And every fair from fair
  sometime declines,By chance, or nature's
  changing course untrimmedBut thy eternal summer
  shall not fade,Nor lose possession of that fair
  thou ow'st,Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest
  in his shade,When in eternal lines to time thou
  grow'st,So long as men can breathe or eyes can
  see,So long lives this, and this gives life to
  thee.

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