ENG 380Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Marjorie Perloff, W. H. Auden, Emily Dickinson
13 Sep 2017
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Writing from the margins insists we consider questions about the nature of poetry. ), or is it itself a world apart (an. W. h. auden: poetry makes nothing happen: historicity/timelessness. How do these questions relate to the timelessness question: creating. Can language be shown to be gendered and racist: re-writing, recognizing and resisting. Given this context, the poetic discourse is that which most fully calls into question conventional writing practices and which defies the authority of the chronological linear model. : starting fresh. In the absence of any other language by which the past may be repossessed, reclaimed and its most painful aspects transcended, english in its broadest spectrum must be made to do the job. The language as we know it has to be dislocated and acted upon even destroyed so that it begins to serve our purposes. It is our only language, and while it is our mother tongue, ours is also a father tongue.
