ENGL 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Polysyndeton, Tangled, Bathos
28 Mar 2018
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"the rape of the lock" -- alexander pope. What happens: the climax of the poem, the turning point in the action. Leading to the mock-epic disaster: daring and inspiring military battle. Line 37: the pack of cards is presented: the velvet plane is a piece of velvet that was played cards upon. Being parodied with this language of kings and queens walking on grass, followed by troops: continuing: naming of ea(cid:272)h (cid:272)ard i(cid:374) fla(cid:373)(cid:271)oya(cid:374)t (cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:374)er though just des(cid:272)ri(cid:271)i(cid:374)g (cid:272)ards, game of cards = example of burlesque. Zeugma: "death some council take, and sometimes tea: bathos: the queen takes council here, and sometimes tea -- verb takes on two meanings. Hampton court -- flirt, but also plot the fall of foreign nation"s fate. "the british queen" and "indian screen" -- colonial content is irrelevant to a british queen: written in rhyming couplets of iambic pantameter.
