ENGL 2802 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Earle Birney, Rhyme Scheme, Lyric Poetry
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Went to london in 1930s and was active in europe: went to berlin and got arrested for refusing to salute to nazis. Kennings: a compound word that"s a reference to an actual thing (ex. By the whale- bath i. e. the ocean); buttrivers = sewers, sunslope = sunset. Gives us a satirical description of a wasp community in toronto. Wwii slogans: in ation of the slogan, de ation but the context that he puts it in. What! used at the beginning of the 2-4th stanzas; anglo-saxon. Huns = slang term for germans in ww2. Prospect poem: has spatial and temporal dimensions (usually is about landscape) Di erence between light ( overlap, haze, lambent spokes of lighthouse) and darkness (wimples, sucks at stars) Black ink spill almost as if across a map when the view expands to europe, africa and. Humans are shown as being small in the scope of the universe. Agency of the people come in at the end.
