ENGLISH 1A03 Lecture Notes - Musical Instrument
25 Feb 2013
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Say what you see > do this when reading a poem first. Hunger, food, feeding > a sense of needs and replenishment of these needs. Each note pleaded to love > suggests melancholy feeling. Repeated word of longer > to emphasize, has an effect on the music of the line, influences our response to that line. Repetition is a resistance of time but it can embody time: a sense of a consecutive order. Same sentence structure of it is gives the poem a descriptive, explanatory and authoritative feel. No person involved in the first two quatrains. Third and fourth includes an i which personalizes the poem. I dreamed your body was an instrument > use of your makes the poem feel more personal. Poem has a shift from formal and definitional to emotional (bodily needs, hunger, desires) With poems: just say what you see. Poems don"t have definite meanings any more than experiences do.
