ENGL 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Profit Motive
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The man acts out the idealism ultimately to undercut it. Irony: writer can say two things at once or say something to disrupt the initial attitude or meaning. Irony is a vital tool of modern writers. Get closer to actual experience of a lived individual"s idea of the world. Having ironic critical questioning of apparent meanings or characters! The scene begins with a conventional romantic idealizing of nature. Begins looking out at sea and a scene of natural beauty. Sonnet about natural beauty and on ironic level it is about the poet"s inability to write a romantic poem appreciating this scene. I should be able to enjoy this but i"m not able to in the way i expect. Associates this frustration with consumerism: getting and spending. Too muchness he refers to is the inquisitive consumerist culture (just beginning now in the romantic period)
