ENGL 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Robert Kroetsch, E. E. Cummings, Long Poem
12 Jan 2015
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Spring is like a perhaps hand e. e. cummings. Carefully repeated throughout the poem, cautious, with care. Window, opening space, spring has ability to create this open space. Into which people look, rather than out of out of window. By observing the poem, we are changing the poem, the reader having ultimate authority. Poem spring, its own composition, language, what we do when language is made strange (we recognize the words, but by carefully rearranging it, it makes it strange) Without breaking anything" moving new and old things, known/strange, Long poem, book-length working within a theme/recurring characters. Hornbooks: educational material, grammar books, educational primers. Title education of rita k, her gaining knowledge, or that the books are going to contain knowledge about this character. Construction meant to represent an aspect of kroetsch. Arbitrary, she thought of calling it chance of flurries also determine how we read what comes after.
