ENGL 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Literal And Figurative Language, William Carlos Williams, Narrative Poetry
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What differentiate novel and poetry: the way which the words are spaced out, not really explicit active role for the reader to interpret, ambiguity, uncertainty, How would you characterize a poetry: poetry comes to use in many different form, songs, rhymes, free verse. , we can make a distinction between lyric poetry and narrative poetry, lyric poetry. Lyric poem is fairly short poem consisting of an utterance of a single speaker that expresses his state of mind and thoughts: beautiful imagery, metaphor, narrative poetry, closer to wallace, tells a story (it has a narrative) Reeve says only poetry that matters is lyric poetry. Lyric poetry for reeve is higher art form that is maintained by higher institutions and academics (ex. univeristy) and this is the greater poetry to him: poetry that sells out (speaks to the people) are lesser poetry for reeve.