Approaches to Literature week 16

李開復2017年哥大畢業典禮演講：
愛，讓人類有別於人工智能

Dramatic Structure

Exposition- The first stage of a fictional or dramatic plot, in which necessary background information is provided. 

Complication-An intensification of the conflict in a story or play. Builds up, accumulates, and develops the primary or central conflict in a literary work.

Climax- The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. The climax represents the point of greatest tension in the work.

Falling action-In the plot of a story or play, the action following the climax of the work that moves it towards its denouement or resolution.

Resolution-The sorting out or unraveling of a plot at the end of a play, novel, or story. 

Demetrius

Demetrius is the Latinized form of the Ancient Greek male given name Dēmḗtrios (Δημήτριος), meaning "devoted to Demeter". Alternate forms include Demetrios, Dimitrios, Dimitris, Dimitri, Demitri, Dhimitër, and Dimitrije, in addition to other forms (such as Russian Dmitri) descended from it.

Last Fragment

And did you get what

you wanted from this life, even so?

I did.

And what did you want?

To call myself beloved, to feel myself

beloved on the earth.

Late Fragment is the final poem in the poet and short story writer Raymond Carver’s (1938-1988) last published work, A New Path to the Waterfall, a collection that was written while he was dying of cancer. I value the Carver poem for a number of reasons. Mostly, I admire its simplicity and its poignancy. There is no measure of irony or artifice in it. There is also an underlying sense of celebration — this, in the affirmative “I did” and in the realization that when all is said and done, to call oneself beloved and to feel oneself beloved (a kind of proof) is enough.