ENG 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Negative Capability, Willow, Winnowing
7 Nov 2017
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Used in dramatic poetry (chorus of singers) One theme: directed to a single purpose. Diction (choice of words): dignified, sincere, solemn. Opens up the three-part structure for its own purposes. Sense of meditation, calm, restraint emphasis on the individual. Rely on feeling to guide the truth. Interest in the past; go back in time. Great issues of the time can be investigated. Being able to reveal the thoughts, feelings, of the individual in connection to the larger questions. Negative capability: when man is capable in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact with reason. Giving yourself over selflessly, to the subject. Articulate the greater beauty in the subject. O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been. Cool"d a long age in the deep-delved earth, O for a beaker full of the warm south, That i might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim:
