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PT 2 Is our most revered knowledge more fragile than we assume it to be?…

- - - - challenges traditional or idealized notions of love and protection, using a child's perspective to reveal the painful reality of abuse hidden under euphemisms and imagery of beauty, like roses.
      - deals with themes of abuse and distorted love.
      - She portrays the symbol of red roses in a different perspectives.
        
        Sexton destabilizes our assumption that a red rose represents only beauty or love.
        
        Red roses usually symbolises love and happiness. This is the revered knowledge.
        
        rose to signify violence, bruising, and a twisted form of love
        
        What makes Sexton to use red roses to symbolise something darker. Contrast to the revered meaning of the red roses
        
        does this action of destabilizing the revered knowledge makes the original knowledge of red roses as beauty or love unacceptable?
        
        she uses juxtaposition
      - Revered Knowledge: In poetry, metaphors are traditionally used to beautify or elevate language, often romanticizing or idealizing life experiences. This is particularly true when using nature imagery, like flowers, which are typically associated with positive or life-affirming qualities.
      - Challenge: Sexton subverts this convention by using the metaphor of red roses to describe bruises from child abuse. This contrast challenges the assumption that metaphors and nature imagery are always meant to evoke beauty or love. Instead, it reveals the fragility of this revered knowledge by showing how such metaphors can also convey violence and pain.
      - Connection: It questions the fragility of traditional views of beauty and love in poetry, revealing how easily language can conceal darker realities.
    - - Revered Knowledge: Poetry often aims to comfort or reflect on the beauty of life, particularly in the context of grief or death. Traditionally, poetry about mourning may focus on life’s transcendence or the solace found in memory.
      - Challenge: Auden’s poem turns this expectation on its head, portraying grief as something totalizing and bleak, with no hint of transcendence or hope. The speaker's despair and desire for the world to stop reflect the fragility of the belief that grief can always lead to healing or resolution.
      - Connection: This poem challenges the revered knowledge that art (especially poetry about loss) should provide closure or a sense of peace, instead highlighting the profound and enduring nature of loss.
    - - Revered Knowledge: In traditional landscape painting, nature is often depicted in an idealized or romanticized way, with the landscape untainted by industrialization or human intervention. Additionally, landscapes are typically expected to have soft, natural colors that reflect the reality of the scene.
      - Challenge: Guillaumin's vibrant, unnatural color palette and inclusion of industrial elements (like smokestacks) alongside the natural sunset challenge the traditional, revered approach to landscape painting. This work exposes the fragility of the assumption that nature should be depicted in a pure, untouched form and that industrialization has no place in aesthetic beauty.
      - Connection: The piece questions long-held beliefs about what is worthy of artistic depiction, showing that beauty can be found in the tension between nature and industry, rather than in the separation of the two.
  - - - challenging the orthodox
      - by introducing contrary evidence or reinterpreting the motivations and decisions of the people involved
      - The unending quest of historians for understanding the past
  - - - Revered Knowledge: Maslow's theory has been widely accepted in both psychology and business as a model of human motivation. It suggests that human needs are hierarchical, starting from basic physiological needs and moving up to self-actualization.
      - Challenge: In recent years, this theory has been critiqued for its rigidity and for not accounting for cultural differences. Research suggests that not all humans prioritize needs in the same order, challenging the assumption that Maslow’s model is universally applicable.
      - Connection to the Title: Maslow's theory was once revered for its simplicity and comprehensiveness, but its fragility is revealed in how it breaks down when applied to different cultures and contexts. The assumption that human motivation is linear is more vulnerable than it first appears.
    - - Revered Knowledge: Developed by John Bowlby, Attachment Theory is revered as a foundational framework in understanding early childhood development and relationships. It categorizes attachment styles (secure, anxious, avoidant) that are said to form the foundation of emotional and social behaviors throughout life.
      - Challenge: Newer research suggests that attachment styles may not be as fixed as once thought, and that other factors (like social environment and life experiences) play a large role in shaping emotional behavior throughout adulthood. This questions the deterministic view that early attachment fully defines one’s future relationships.
      - Connection to the Title: The revered belief that early childhood determines one’s lifelong relationship patterns is being challenged, showing the fragility of assumptions about human emotional development. There’s more flexibility in human behavior than Attachment Theory initially suggested.
    - - Revered Knowledge: The mere exposure effect challenges the assumption that our preferences are based solely on rational analysis. It suggests that familiarity itself breeds preference, even in the absence of other positive qualities.
      - Challenge: This effect brings into question the revered belief in human rationality and logical decision-making, showing that sometimes our preferences are based on subconscious or irrational factors.
      - Connection to the Title: The fragility of the idea that humans make choices based on logic is exposed by this effect, as it highlights how much of our decision-making is influenced by exposure rather than careful reasoning.