ENG 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Theodore Roethke, Ancient Greek
5 Oct 2017
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Expression of emotion ancient greek accompanied by a lyre. Subjective individual experience, personal expression phrased imaginatively. Non-narrative not written in the form of a story (mini narrative, but not a narrative) Third person he, she, him, her, they not lyric. Not heard, but overheard a revealing of a personal thing. Visual information four stanzas with four lines. Quatrain , couplet two line stanza, all similar in size. My first person, papa intimate name. Regular rhyming scheme with close rhyme. Scene: in their home, in the kitchen, the drunken father is dancing with the son who is a small boy. Waltz is a formal, graceful dance with a regular beat, the poem is modelled after the waltz and used ironically bc the father is drunk. Mother is an unhappy observer, who cannot unfrown her face father is not steady on his feet. The boy is holding onto his father.
