ENG 3339 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Tragicomedy, Mongrel, Elizabethan Era
2 Oct 2016
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If a servant behaves badly, it reflects upon her master. Shamed you by writing these sonnets towards you, now going to do something more noble, a new literary project. No release for the speaker, sonnet of entrapment (circularity) Stella is more noble than astophil in her integrity. Classical oration parts: exordium (l 1-51, narration (l. 52-315, proposition & division of the topic, examination or proof, refutation counter arguments, digression, peroration / conclusion. Topos: topics stuff of arguments / form of arguments. Writing about poetry at an imbattled time in his history. Ancient, oldest manifestation of culture, precedes all learning. Lines 101 114 philosophers use poetry. Etymology roman - l. 156 dinner, foreseer, prophet. Line 215 greeks had a different term for it, vain superstition, the poet as a maker . ( a god like capacity or discounting god"s power). Line 224 astronomer is restricted by nature. Restricting what can be said poet is attached to nature, writing.
