ENG 3320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Elegy, Iambic Tetrameter, Quatrain
28 Feb 2017
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Wrote lots in 1895 during wilde"s trials of homosexuality. Translator of classic texts wants to be as accurate as possible: poem exists to translate feeling. Children/nursey rhyme tone, but content is very different. Better to die young at your peak. Today is from now on, the athlete is dead. Parallels: shoulder high carry for win and in casket. What value do we place on fame: in his mind, fame is very important. S1 question why are you forcing this on us: terence = housman. Despite the alcohol, the bad is still there. S3: misery in poetry will teach you how to deal with negative, world is trouble, poetry can help you get through. Persona: make what he"s saying more accessible, making a character he"d like to be more like, we become the colleagues in the bar. Questioned all established moral and religious ways of society. Believes man is controlled by force outside himself.
