ENGL 102W Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Ekphrasis, Alliteration, Claustrophobia
31 Oct 2015
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The american civil war (cid:0) greatly changed the american way of thinking b/c of this people stopped believing that anyone cared at all for their great suffering. The war was very gruesome, the carnage unbelievable. God dies & the sense of justice disappears. Life is pain, that"s just how the way things are. The berg demonstrates how americans felt: no one cared. As well as what auden says in les. In the poem nothing was affected by the huge blow of the ship. Meaning humans are going headlong into ignorance & nature isn"t going to care if we destroy ourselves. They move as much as their position do (which isn"t moving a lot: speaker: stubbornness of the ship, stubbornness of humanity damns the ship. Diction of stolidly: expected: from the line along thy dense stolidity of walls the iceberg expected the ship to crash into it. They won"t care no matter what happens, it"s the nature of things.
