The Individual in Poetry and Prose

Please choose some of the following texts and discuss their views of the self!

A) POEMS:

Li Bai, "Zazen on Ching-t’ing Mountain":

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/178453

Muhyiddin Ibn al-Àrabi, "Tigris Song":

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/181320

Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, "A Moment of Happiness":

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-moment-of-happiness/

Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, "All through Eternity":

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/all-through-eternity/

Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, "A Stone I Died":

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-stone-i-died/

Hafez, "For Years my Heart Inquired":

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/181369

Hafez, "Ode 44":

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/180838

Kabir, "I Won't Come":

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/241234

Kabir, "Plucking your Eyebrows":

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/241232

Kabir, "Chewing Slowly":

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/241230

Kabir, "His Death in Benares":

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/241228

Emily Dickinson, "They Shut Me up in Prose":

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/182902

Emily Dickinson, "I Dwell in Possibility"

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/182904

Mirza Ghalib, "Ghazal":

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ghazal-5/

Khalil Gibran, "A Poet's Voice - 15":

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-poet-s-voice-xv/

Khalil Gibran, "A Tear and a Smile":

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-tear-and-a-smile-3/

Rabindranath Tagore, "Fruit-Gathering 55":

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174933

Rabindranath Tagore, "I Asked of Destiny":

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/1898

Rabindranath Tagore, "Sing the Song of the Moment":

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/1894

T.S. Eliot, "The Four Quartets" (please focus on: "Burnt Norton")

text: https://www2.bc.edu/john-g-boylan/files/fourquartets.pdf

audio recording: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxquJf-5q_s

or: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga8tQrG4ZSw

Chuang Tzu, "Action and Non-Action":

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/176256

Vinda Karandikar, "The Wheel":

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/180011

Yehuda Amichai, "The Amen Stone":

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/237658

Pablo Neruda, "Absence":

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/absence-56/

Maya Angelou, "A Brave and Startling Truth":

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-brave-and-startling-truth/

Maya Angelou, "Alone":

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/alone-6/

Benjamin Zephaniah, "We Refugees":

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/we-refugees/

Taha Muhammad Ali, "Exodus":

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/241016

Taha Muhammad Ali, "Meeting at an Airport":

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/241018

Bei Dao, "Notes from the City of the Sun"

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/180380

Bei Dao, "Moon Festival":

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/180400

 B) PROSE: 

Thich Nhat Hanh, "The 14 Mindfulness Trainings":

http://www.browardlotussangha.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/the-fourteen-mindfulness-trainings.pdf    

or: http://www.deepriversangha.org/14_mindfulness_trainings.htm

Dogen, Selected passages:

1) 

http://global.sotozen-net.or.jp/common_html/zuimonki/02-14.html

2)

http://global.sotozen-net.or.jp/common_html/zuimonki/02-26.html

3)

http://global.sotozen-net.or.jp/common_html/zuimonki/02-26.html