Evidence” you dshould use quotations to serve as evidence for the argument that you
make about the text
Analysis: only quote from the text when you want to analyze or interpret the form, style,
structure, or meaning of the language contained in the quotation
No quotation should go unanalyzed
Not paraphrase: do not simply quote the text as a means of paraphrasing the narrative or
content
When to indent: if the piece of text that you want to quote is more than five lines long,
then you should indent it apart from the main body of your writing. If the piece of text id
five lines or less, then you should include it within the body of your own writing.
References: you should include in brackets the line numbers for all poetic quotations, also
the canto number, if the poem contains cantos.
Mark line breaks “Where wigs with wigs, with swordknots swordknots strive,/ Beaux
banish beaux, and coaches coaches drive”
Large block of text:
To the leftish
Don’t end on a large block quote; provide an explanantion.
Burns and Wordsworth
Ballad
Lyric
Dialect
Ballad: unwritten, lyric form of verse (spoken or oral form)
Also associated with a rural, rustic, peasant milieu
(Oral and folk)
Burns: Ballad
Wordsworth and Coleridge: tried to melf Ballad and Lyric (set to music) together
Ballad: became a trend among upperclasses
Many were presented as if they were an archaeological relic
(lost culture; of peasants, magicians, bards…)
pregutenberg; before commercialization and modernization 300500 years before
Dialect: particular subset of language used by a particular group (defined by geography)
Burns: lowerclass, alien, strange dialect that no one is familiar with
To a Mouse
Burns: excludes his work from his readers
Barrier and invitation; want to understand; cannot understand
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