ENGB04H3 Lecture 6: Tutorial 6 + 7
Tutorial 6:
• 3 handles that we should think about Frost as:
1. Modernist Frost
▪ Interested in active poetry; he wanted poetry that would be accessible for
everyone
▪ Because he is coming from a politically and poetically revolutionary time period,
the poetry seems to be easy to read on the surface but contains deep meanings
o Poet of understatement
▪ Complex ideas expressed but readable and attainable for everyone
o The soud of sese
▪ The use of how words sound to convey visceral meaning
▪ It is possible to have sound of sense without sense or place
▪ He saw poetry as work
Discussion Questions: on The Wood-Pile and Out, Out
1. What are the differees etee ho these to poes ake use of the soud of sese?
• The Wood Pile is more focused on imagery and paints a vivid mental picture.
o He refers to luerjak
• Out, Out is ore soud ased, repetitio i harsh souds.
o End dashes for accidents
o Emphasis on child tragically dying from labour death, cut arm off
Tutorial 7:
Speaker and Context:
• Both poems use first person in different degree.
o Woodpile is lone wanderer in frozen swamp, more personal , slow and soft
▪ He is observant, appreciates nature, hard work, detailed oriented
▪ He is thoughtful, and melancholic
o Out-Out uses more sounds, enjambment, thrilling and rough
• Woodpile uses I throughout the poe
o You immediately know who is talking
o Focuses on internal emotional experience
• Out-Out oly uses I oe, they put you ito the story ut do’t tell you ho the speaker is
o Shows that speaker is just observing and not experiencing the action
• Speech act is different in both poems
o Woodpile is description
o Out-Out is dialogue
• Both poems take place in time period where people cut wood a lot.
o Agricultural setting, pre-industrialization
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