ENGB04H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Margaret Atwood, Fish Hook, Language Change
Tutorial 1:
You fit into me, like a hook into an eye.
A fish hook, an open eye.
– Margaret Atwood
• Feelings of discomfort
• 2 sets of couplets
• Poe’s for is irrored i the poe’s otet, it is aout to people.
• Alludes domestic violence
1. Read it.
2. Read it out loud.
• Make sure to read poetry more than once; cadence is easier to catch if you read it out
loud.
3. Surface/literal meaning.
• This will break down in experimental poetry. There is not always a narrative.
4. Literary devices/annotate.
• Markings on the poem
• What different poetic devices are
5. Figurative meaning.
6. All together.
• How does step 3 and 4 relate to step 5?
Tutorial 3:
• Sonnets are 14-line poems
• 2 types of sonnets:
o 1. Shakespearean
▪ Quatrain
▪ ABAB – CDCD – EFEF – GG
• Spenserian – ABAB – BCBC – CDCD – EE
▪ Couplet at the end, always pay attention to what the 2 lines do
▪ These tpes do’t hae to ol refer “hakespeare’s soets
o 2. Petrarachan
▪ ABBA – ABBA – Octave
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