ENGL 315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Dialectic, Petrarch, Bloody Knife

• School: McGill University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 315
• Professor: Anna Lewton- Brain

Document Summary

How grief changes one"s perspective on art. More serious undertaking then venus and adonis (p. 235) Dedication of poem = more intimate than venus and adonis"s dedication (p. 279) Ovid"s fasti" : where shakespeare gets his inspiration. The story of lucrece appears in book 2 ; month of february. Shakespeare takes the image of her death (david) and transposes it before the rape in his own poem. Stanza has a variability : quatrain or tercet. Stanzas = plumper than venus and adonis (faster pace) Concerned with the matter of rome (as well as love) Poem = about the telling, not about what happens. The dramatic unfolding is what we"re reading it for. Poem is difficult to read because : as readers were invited into tarquin"s psychology. Poem = self-conscious about love and morality. L85 112 : innocently increase can"t discern talk with his evilness. This earthly saint, adored by this devil, For unstain"d thoughts do seldom dream on evil;