Humanities links
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Unit 5: Art
Poetry
David MacFarlane, "It's Open. Who Cares?” (Globe
and Mail,
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/article830586.ece
Gwendolyn MacEwen, "Let Me Make this Perfectly Clear”
(Afterworlds, McClelland & Stewart, 1987).
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/macewen/poem1.htm
Thomas Lux, "The Voice You Hear When You Read
Silently”
http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/poetry/lux.html
Philip Larkin, "This Be the Verse”
http://www.artofeurope.com/larkin/lar2.htm
Sharon Olds, "I Go Back to May 1937” (The
Gold Cell, Knopf, 1987)
http://www.english.illinois.edu/MAPS/poets/m_r/olds/poems.htm
Julia Copus, "The Back Seat of My Mother's Car”
http://www2.uic.edu/~amoret2/2005/10/back-seat-of-my-mothers-car-by-julia.html
Walt Whitman, "O Me! O Life!”
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/o-me-o-life/
Paintings
Vincent Van Gogh, “Starry Night”
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:VanGogh-starry_night_edit.jpg
Botticelli, “The Birth of Venus”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_Venus_(Botticelli)
Pablo Picasso, “Weeping Woman”
http://www.lavottgallery.co.uk/view-galleries.php?gallery_name=Masters
Giotto, “Lamentation”
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Giotto_di_Bondone_009.jpg
Francisco Goya, “The Third of May”
http://www.artmuseums.com/currentevents.htm
Frida Kahlo, “The Love Embrace of the Universe”
Music
Gregorian chant “Veni Creator Spiritus”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ8iRv67lVM
Palestrina 1525-1594
“Sicut Cervus”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5uVEN3lzCQ&feature=related
Bach (1685-1750)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5Mv3T3ANjY
Beethoven (1770-1827) “Symphony #5”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhcR1ZS2hVo
Billie Holliday, “Strange Fruit”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs
The Who, “My Generation”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0XknwXqLDo
Rolling Stones, “Start Me Up”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OFzWgnlou8
Bruce Springsteen, “Born to Run”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6se90rFN1qI
Tupac Shakur
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs1xHPU7WwA
Bob Dylan, “Blowin’ in the Wind”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ced8o50G9kg
Eric Clapton, "Groaning the Blues"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxTWQD91b5c
Pink Floyd, "We Don't Need No
Education"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwTpZpwjtIE
U2, "Sunday, Bloody Sunday"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFM7Ty1EEvs
Eg. Dave Brubeck Quartet, “Take Five”
