ENGLISH 1A03 Lecture Notes - Dover Beach, The Courtroom

• School: McMaster University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGLISH 1A03
• Professor: Jeffery Donaldson

Document Summary

What we talk about when we talk about poems. The grocery store argument or the wrong way to approach the experience of a poem . If you catch yourself looking for certain words that will back up your argument and avoiding certain other words because they don"t seem to support what you"re saying, then you"re taking the grocery-store approach. It is like passing down and aisle, choosing this item, that item, and then presenting your own shopping cart as representative of the entire store and everything that is in it. Mood indicators: human misery (second stanza, melancholy, calm.