Although I know little about poetry and even less about Italian, tonight\u2019s lecture with Professor Cavatorta brought to mind an interesting parallel to today about fragmentation as a way to tell a story.\u00a0 In the poem Professor Cavatorta showed in his lecture, the words were literally fragmented all over the page, and their meanings seemed to be fragmented as well, as a way to confuse the reader and provoke a certain curiosity.\u00a0 Professor Cavatorta highlighted the fact that this was intentional: the poet wanted the reader to be intrigued in this way.<\/p>\n
This semester I have been working on writing curriculum about social media to use with teenage girls.\u00a0 One of the activities I have developed is about the fragmentation of our stories.\u00a0 When a girl posts on instagram, she does not post her whole life.\u00a0 Instead, she chooses one or two important parts of her day to highlight.\u00a0 We may see the she won her soccer game, but not that she got in a big fight with her parents after that.\u00a0 We might see that she went to Versailles, but not that she had to wait in line for two hours to get in.\u00a0 Girls will intentionally fragment the stories they portray of their lives to intentionally provoke the same curiosity that the poets discussed in the lecture did.\u00a0 This type of fragmentation engages one\u2019s audience, both in Italy in the 1960s and in Central Maine in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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