ENGL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Ubi Sunt, Satire, List Of Narrative Techniques

• School: Queen's University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 100
• Professor: John Pierce

Document Summary

Mode: a way or manner in which something is done or takes place (oed 4) A strategy or method of presenting a subject in written or spoken form. Not tied to a particular genre or form (trans-generic) But often emerges from a particular genres. Originated in particular greek and roman verse forms. Refers to experience of change and loss, especially in complaints about love. A formal and sustained lament in verse for the death of a particular person, usually ending in consolidation. Expression of personal loss and grief (particularly to speaker) Loss tied to death and realization of passage of time. Proceeds as meditation on mortality and search for consolation. Faces mystery of death with questions and sometimes-tentative answers. Uses ubi sunt motif= the where-are" formula for lamenting the vanished past. Where are the revels in the hall [ ] how that time has passed away, grown dark under cover of night, as if it had never been .