ENGL 2P21 Lecture 8: Lecture 8.docx

Poets : leaper=mira; comes from latin to wonder, marvel , captures something about the position of these poets, idea of working class poet seems like a wonder, marvel, oddity, to be mira means to marvel, wonder at the world. Shows that the landowner invites the labourers to the party and are under the false impression that they are on holiday; makes the next day harder because they need to return to their work the next day. Shows how exploitative and oppressive this community is: cheat : duck draws on an epic tradition to highlight the nobility of the work the labourers do, line 106 Sense that the land that is not harvested has a beauty of its own but is then made to be productive, robbing it of its natural beauty/intrinsic goodness. Sense of something to be loss for cultivation.