ENGL 105W Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Enjambment, Dramatic Monologue
4 Mar 2016
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Eng 105 lecture 6 pauline johnson. Johnson"s identity: performing both sides of her ethnicity both the colonizer & the colonized: father: mohawk chief mother: english woman. Played the indian & a victorian woman, she could transition from one to another. She"s popular b/c she linked the vivid present w/ the immemorial past : gave sense of validation that settlers were linked to the land, the fiction makes us real , offered white settlers connection to the landscape. Writing back: she reclaims history & territory they but forget we indian owned the land . Narrative poems: longer poems that tell stories, and are meant to be recited aloud. Ballad: a story poem that could be set to music, such as dawendine . Dramatic monologue: poem in which the speaker is a specific character who is directly addressing someone, ex. Lyric: a short rhyming poem the corn husker . A staunch canadian nationalist, while also speaking out against might"s injustice :
