ENGLISH 2H06 Lecture : Frost and Stevens Continued
11 Feb 2012
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Watching the woman which makes the poem partially about the woman, problematizes the relationship of the person with the environment. Narrative, but more much formal, thinking through of concept through poetic rhetoric. Magnitude of setting of bountiful sea, something potentially larger even than the singer. The environment itself is divided, strong demarcation between the world of singing and the strange otherworldly sea itself. Poet looking for reciprocity between the spirit of the place genius loki and. The lights of the boats laid across the water and the sea even is ordered when it comes into contact with man. Finally, you cannot tell in the last scene whether or not the spirit is the spirit of the song or the spirit of the place. The world we inhabit is the whole world and the spirit of the song as well. 1st person, frost s world and address is directly to the natural environment itself.
