Scene-function+Sestinas


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Analysis of **function ** at the level of **THE SCENE **.

**The Task:** In the form of a sestina that meets the following requirements, analyze any scene from //Brave New World// or //1984// in terms of how Huxley or Orwell manipulates language in order to achieve his purpose via specific functions.
 * A good title
 * Proper stanza and rhyme schemes (make sure no lines are too long)
 * Minimum of two syntactical inversions*
 * Minimum of three poetic uses of [|figurative language]
 * Minimum of four clipped quotes
 * Considerations of function, purpose, and form (i.e., how Huxley uses language to achieve certain aims)

Ok? Sounds good?

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Post a link to your sestina in the same manner you did with the "Thanksgiving Break Sestina." And color-code your inversions and figurative language usage.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">[For your reference, here is the scene-by-scene assignment you (well, most of you) worked on for //Brave New World.//]

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Function: what does the scene do? <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Purpose: the reason the scene exists?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">A quick, clarifying note on Function vs. Purpose: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">e.g., A vacuum cleaner's function is to suck up dirt and its purpose is to make cleaning stuff up easier to do.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">***Inverted syntax** involves the rearranging of normal word order, and it's a common poetic device. (It's also [|Yoda]'s primary syntactical mode.)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">"Beautiful are the stars that in the sky shine." (instead of "The stars that shine in the sky are beautiful.")
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">"Whose woods these are I think I know." - Robert Frost (instead of "I think I know whose woods these are.")
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">"Need that, you do not.” - Yoda
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">“Always in motion is the future.” - Yoda
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">“Twisted by the Dark Side, young Skywalker has become.” - Yoda