ENGL 1080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Demonstrative, Immortality
1 Jun 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Read the text over once without making notes. Read it over again with a pen/highlighter and note important phrases or words. Create an annotated version of the writing. Make notes concerning use of rhetoric, patterns in the poem, etc. Many times, form and meaning are inseparable. Meaning can change based on a reader"s experience authors know this. Texts can be contradictory language can be ambiguous. Avoid the practice of interpreting the text according to the effect that it has on the reader. Sing-song imagery (refer to rhyming scheme ababacdd) Speaker: an elderly man, past his prime speaking of life and fertility. He is reflecting on the cycle of life beginning in the spring. That the demonstrative pronoun suggests that he feels like an observer rather than a participant (instead of this" is no country for old men he is removed from the mortal world)
