ENGL 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Chiasmus, Blazon, Trochee
28 Mar 2018
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Chaucer"s invention of iambic pentameter shakespearian sonnets were solidi ed through. 55 [not marble, nor the gilded monuments ] william shakespeare. Indentation of the last two lines gives the reader the structure. Trochee, so stress is on the rst syllable within the line. Shall shine unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish . Assonance shall shine lone i" sound. Writing a poem about a woman means that she will live on forever. Writing something down as a temporal continuum, longer than a statue that can crack, words persist. Vehicle monument, the statue that carries towards the abstract notion. Poem is making a contrast, to do so there must be a comparison. In the sense there is a contrast within the conceit. Love is being compared and contrasted to a statue. If a statue is a record, poetry is a living record, more than a physical monument. Old theme in poetry that poetry is more lasting than brass.
