ENGL 253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Lyric Poetry, Assistant Professor, Synecdoche

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 253
• Professor: Roderick Moody-Corbett

Document Summary

Billy-ray belcourt: 2016 rhodes scholar, ubc assistant prof in indigenous creative writing, 2 poetry and 1 essay books. Tone: mood, feeling, atmosphere, overall effect of a poem. Elegy: a formal poem of lament usually mourning the death of an individual. Lyric: a relatively brief poem featuring a single speaker expressing thoughts/feelings: many forms: sonnet, ode, free verse, dominant form since romantic period. In ancient greece, lyric poems were sung to the accompaniment of a lyre. Ode: lyric poem celebrating and often addressed to a person, thing or abstraction: elevated, serious tone, 3 forms, pindaric ode: original greek ode, rare in english, horatian ode: more personal tone, cowleyan ode: irregular. Apostrophe: an address to an absent person, thing or abstract idea. Metonymy: figure of speech in which a word stands for an object/concept its related to: ex: crown is a metonymy for the monarchy.