ENGL 2802 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Norse Mythology, Psychological Projection, Enjambment
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Bushed : a mental illness that sets from being alone too long in the bush (can also mean tired") Movement from agency to passivity (verbs): invented, built, was out, found, tried, knew, could only wait. A rainbow in culture (biblical): rainbow promises that god will never ood the earth again. Lightning: the invention gets struck down by nature (struck it, shattered it [parallelism]) Sublime: the mountain; we get a sense of the scale; cognitive processes are being a ected by nature (the mind slows) Sublime: power and the character"s smallness on the scale. Sense of adaptation: trying to impose order on the landscape; built and learned . 3 sections of 3 lines each: him trying to impose an order on the landscape and his days. Shift to 5 lines a stanza: the mountain is personi ed (alive); not the mountain has agency. Dawn , sundown , sunset : sense of darkness that"s falling.
