ENGL 228 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Northrop Frye, Truancy, Narrative Poetry
5 May 2016
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Born 1822 but considered can mod poetry (younger than campbell, scott. Critic northrop frye and e. k brown considered him the best. Lit prestige in england so few writers in poetry and fiction- just for prestige. Continued to work with meter and rhyme (confed poet also interested in that) Each character represents a view of world that collides. Characters (a) panjandrum (any ridiculous monarch) voice of mechanical , inhuman, universe tyrant, monarch. Associate him with death (power to kill) and sentences the truant to death. Voiced of pure matter (everything disintegrating until all u have is dust) (b) truant willful, rebel who won"t submit. Mortal and will die but freedom to define himself, can write his own life story (the poem we"re reading) Humanity that should be explained by modern science but is not. Struggle / crime/ matter they"re fighting over . What is the spark that makes humans what they are def. (penjadinum)
