résumé (dorothy parker)
TRANSCRIPT
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Juão Maya presents
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RÉSUMÉA poem by Dorothy Parker
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NOTES ON “RÉSUMÉ”
This little eight-line poem is one of Parker’s most famous, basedon her experience in attempting suicide the first time by slittingher wrists in 1923.
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The last line – “You might as well live” – is exactly what her friendRobert Benchley said to her at the time. It serves as the punchline or the reversal “point” of the classical epigram, with a switchto a resigned or unconcerned tone of voice contrasting with themethodical catalog of suicide attempts.
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https://prezi.com/uog47x3fbhsq/resume-by-dorothy-parker/http://www.enotes.com/topics/resume
The theme of “Résumé” is death and suicide and the poem is fairlyobvious in being a laundry list of suicide methods.But the theme could also be life, for it is too much hassle to cause death -- and Parker says in her poem that trying to commit suicideis harder than living.
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RÉSUMÉ
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Razors pain you;
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Rivers are damp;
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Acids stain you;
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And drugs cause cramp.
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Guns aren’t lawful;
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Nooses give;
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Gas smells awful;
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You might as well live.
MUSIC
“Aria” – Goldberg VariationsJ. S. Bach
Glenn Gould, piano
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