English @ SUNY Geneseo | Devon Poniatowski | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/spritelydevon/activity/ Activity feed for Devon Poniatowski. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 e98c1d33bcc7553a711009a578f1e42a Devon Poniatowski replied to the topic Heaney, and the "Tribe's complicity" in the forum Irish Studies http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/irish-studies/forum/topic/heaney-and-the-tribes-complicity/#post-408 Mon, 28 Apr 2014 20:39:58 -0500 Joseph, I’m interested in what you mentioned about the “intellectual distance” that Heaney assumes in his work, especially in the bog poems where he does romanticize death and corpses. I think it is important to note that Heaney (over and over again) tries to rationalize the place of his art amongst the violence—as if the art is a meditat…[Read more]

]]> 7a4650c4a9e93820a2607a210163a54f Devon Poniatowski started the topic Heaney & the Romanticization of Violence in the Context of Plato in the forum Irish Studies http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/irish-studies/forum/topic/heaney-the-romanticization-of-violence-in-the-context-of-plato/ Wed, 23 Apr 2014 20:21:00 -0500 All the thought I have given to the place of violence in the realm of art has lead me to consider Plato’s Republic, and how Plato chooses to banish the poets from his ideal society. From my understanding, he chooses this because (in his eyes) poets construct a dreamy conception of emotional toil, which encourages the reader to become less c…[Read more]

]]> 55b361e11748494c9a4bece5dead868e Devon Poniatowski replied to the topic Lack of Empathy in the forum Irish Studies http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/irish-studies/forum/topic/lack-of-empathy/#post-398 Wed, 23 Apr 2014 19:43:18 -0500 Therese, I think you raise a valid point. Honestly, how can one plant bombs and then make a statement that there was no intent to kill? I am reminded of a certain mentality that men of the American revolution had when it came to the consideration of violence, and its perceived “necessity” in the realm of generating change within a firmly roo…[Read more]

]]> 51b45bf3ffa1953bed10a8508f89e03f Devon Poniatowski replied to the topic Self Actualization in "Michael Robartes and the Dancer" in the forum Irish Studies http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/irish-studies/forum/topic/self-actualization-in-michael-robartes-and-the-dancer/#post-288 Mon, 24 Mar 2014 00:54:39 -0500 I think it is interesting that you have paired Maslow’s theory of self-actualization with Yeats’s Michael Robartes and the Dancer. When I first read the poems from this collection, I had a similar reaction: the poems seemed to be slighting women. I even wrote a blog post about “A Prayer for my Daughter,” in reaction to how the piece seemed to be c…[Read more]

]]> d6ea1b35079aad9ea181a43b0b2bf7d0 Devon Poniatowski replied to the topic Yeats' Transition: From Paradox to Paradox in the forum Irish Studies http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/irish-studies/forum/topic/yeats-transition-from-paradox-to-paradox/#post-272 Mon, 03 Mar 2014 04:28:58 -0500 Harry, something you said has me thinking a bit more about the stark and ironic differences between Yeats’s earlier, dreamy poems (from “The Rose,” for instance) and the futile ones we are now getting in to (from “The Tower”). You’ve mentioned that “we escape the dreamy mystical side of [Yeats’s] work” once we encounter his later poems, and that h…[Read more]

]]> 68b9fa2354913fdbc695cb0aaeb90c01 Devon Poniatowski started the topic Solomon & the Queen of Sheba: Differences in Poetic Dialogue in the forum Irish Studies http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/irish-studies/forum/topic/solomon-the-queen-of-sheba-differences-in-poetic-dialogue/ Tue, 25 Feb 2014 07:12:06 -0500 I am approaching Yeats’s collection (Michael Robartes and the Dancer) to be evocative of deeper, anti-feministic sentiments. “Solomon and the Witch” is one such poem that seems to reinforce this idea, as its contrast between the male voice and the female voice is noticeably divergent. The reader is immediately introduced to the queen of Sheba…[Read more]

]]> 3b7192dade5f4b9c85f0deee1313a4dc Devon Poniatowski wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies http://irishstudies.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=139 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 05:10:26 -0500 Thumbnail

Before embarking on Yeats’s “A Prayer for my Daughter,” I originally thought it sweet that Yeats felt an urge to “dedicate” a poem to his daughter. After further reading, I realize the morphed perspective […]

]]> 87a1c5d334068d7d53d3b89c6cc61b11 Devon Poniatowski replied to the topic Yeats and Plato's Idea of The Good in the forum Irish Studies http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/irish-studies/forum/topic/yeats-and-platos-idea-of-the-good/#post-217 Mon, 10 Feb 2014 18:01:22 -0500 The link to Platonic philosophy is really interesting! It seems to me that Yeats is looking down on the middle class that labors for security—content with the dull, artificial flame within the cave, not valorous enough to seek beyond the domain of learned protection. Yeats’s motif of the color grey also plays into this idea—modernity as a sun-l…[Read more]

]]> 3e2cd58875dd99ace0f8e336bdf675a2 Devon Poniatowski wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies http://irishstudies.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/02/10/like-gentle-blood-does-art-infallibly-yield-transformation/ Mon, 10 Feb 2014 00:05:50 -0500 Thumbnail 

Something powerful that I have found in reference to the readings for Monday is Yeats’s distinct separation between the domain of creativity and that of politics/ “logical” progressions of thought. […]

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“Last night all my household had retired at a quarter to 11 and I thought I would go to you astrally[…] We went somewhere in space I don’t know where – I was conscious of starlight & of hearing the sea below […]

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