EN 1201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: New Criticism, Romantic Nationalism, Transportation Alternatives
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*lecture #4 poetry 2: modernists// second coming (yeats); station (pound); The red wheelbarrow (williams); 13 ways (stevens); ars poetica (macleish); Fixed form poetry have very clear conventions. Look at how it functions/ changes over time. Literature is inspired by, and affirms the nation-state. Mid 20th century: formalism/ new criticism. Structure of the text outside of its larger social and political commentary/ context doesn"t matter, only the text. There are so many different ways to look at literature; gender, translation, location, makes people self-conscious of how they understand. Gordon"s 5 steps of close reading: 1) evaluation. Paraphrase/ subject (one word)/ theme (sentence: 3) description. It is about wanting canadians to leave the romanticism writing for the. A parody of a poem: 5) critical analysis. Canada is still in its british colonial time. Modernists: on or around december, 1910. What it meant to be human was changing, so was literature. Old conventions of poetry would not work in the new world.
