ENGL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Lyric Poetry, Sarcasm
19 Oct 2016
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Voice tone and irony: poems on parents and children. Poetry invites the reader to recognize things are not what they appear. There is a gap between what is presented and what is met: irony. Irony is the biggest conceptual category for talking about that gap. Discrepancy of perception and attitude towards experience. Usually the discrepancy is exposed by some point of juxtaposition. Form and content: sound and sense: expectations vs. actuality: innocence vs. experience: children and parents. Ha(cid:373)ilto(cid:374)"s e(cid:374)tra(cid:374)(cid:272)e o(cid:374) iro(cid:374)y: verbal saying one thing and meaning the under ex. Lyric poetry presents a speaker who is necessarily different from the poet: creates a gap. Once your positing the speaker is different than the author then you are sure that the listener is different than the reader: another gap. Once determined ^ we can imagine that the speaker has different attitudes from us r from the author. Ca(cid:374) i(cid:373)agi(cid:374)e the poet"s attitude to(cid:449)ards the su(cid:271)je(cid:272)t a(cid:374)d the speaker are different.
