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Schutt Event

I attended the event of Will Schutt who was born in New York City in 1981. He is the author of Westerly, winner of the 2012 Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. His individual poems and translations from Italian have appeared in Agni, A Public Space, and The New Republic and elsewhere In the event we were with other fellow students where Schutt narrated some stanzas of his poem and after a small narration he spent a short time making an explanation. He sometimes related his work with real life situations that happened in his life. For instance, in cosmos two, which he says that it combines two events in his life, the first one represented the effect of Supreme Court ordering a recount of presidential votes in Florida and ruled in the favor of George W Bush. The second event was when he started discovering poetry while still in college with only 19 years when they met with a tall brown guy and came to know each other better and Schutt thought that guy had a future in poetry. Schutt also explained his interest in poetry from when he was in school up to now. After the play was over, we were given the opportunity to ask questions to him and two people represented us with the questions, one of the people asked what he is actually reading right now and he explained the book that he has gotten his attention nowadays which is a book of some fiction and non-fiction readings. The event was just enjoyable learning from Schutt with his skills in poetry. We even had a time after the event to just interact with him after the event and we came to learn a lot from what he had passed through before and after joining poetry which was beneficial in improving our English skills.

Relating this with The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, many people pass a lot in their life before they can succeed. The narrator in this book gets frequent flashbacks especially the relationship with her husband Luke (Atwood, pg 4). Before they even met with Luke, she worked as a handmaid for five weeks and where she was working she was tortured and forced to have sex by a married commander. This shows how people go through various problems before they succeed in what they are doing. This was the same case that Schutt was trying to put across of how he went through various challenges before making it in poetry. The event that I attended, Schutt used flashbacks in remembering how his past life was and how he started poetry in a very humble way. Flashback has also been used in a great way in the Handmaid's Tale when the narrator remembers various instances in life which were challenging to her. In both scenarios the narrators have actually used various themes in expressing themselves. Like in Handmaid’s Tale, the author has used a theme like love, women and femininity and others. Schutt also used themes although the event was not long so there were no a lot of themes in his event.

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Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid’s Tale (1986). NY: Anchor Books, 1998.