ENGL1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Simon Armitage, Philip Larkin
Lecture 2 – 3/08/17 – Language is my enemy (Simon Armitage)
Others like Armitage: Ted Hughes and Philip Larkin
How to read a poem:
- Not hat ut ho
- Context: biographical, literary, historical, social
- Context is always larger and more complex than point of view of any one individual
- Who is the speake? Poes ae pefoed – i Aitages poet he iets daati
speake/eatio. Not Aitage sas – poet as speake sas
- Whats the sto? Paaphase a e helpful/eessa, ut eadig should start not stop
here.
- What is it about? How do language and form/structure combine to construct meaning?
Voa, sta ad hetoi aot e distiguished fo a poes eaig.
- Denotate then connotate
Subversion
- Poet is othe to laguage, its alteatie, its oppositioal, euies oetatio
Violee as a thee i Aitages ok
- 1970s Britain was violent
- Hithe, Meahile soehee i the state of Coloado
Terminology
- Truncaic
- Pentameter
Trying to get to that place where writing transcends by every measure its original intention
What makes prose poems poetry?
- The rhythm
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Document Summary
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