ENGL 229 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Poncho, Sylvia Plath, Phyllis Webb
31 May 2016
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Lament ; poetics against the angel of death ; poems of failure: iii and iv . Sense that the poetry scene was heavily male dominated. Similar to whatever else poetry is freedom (layton) Critics at the time conflated the speaker and the poet. Sylvia plath committed suicide at this time. He"s a private man speaking to public man. L7-8 : last night i though i would not wake again / but now with this june morning i run ragged to elude . Yes (14) : - suggests her enthusiasm. Alludes to major writes of the time. Webb did experiment with short lines : the naked poems. Webb was met with criticism for being too minimalist. She also undertook experimenting with long lines : the kropotkin poems (poems of failure) Webb was interested in how kropotkin"s philosophy got to the public. - transition from speaking about prisoner (1-2) to herself (17-20)
