ENGB04H3 Lecture : ENGB04_March 6.docx
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Chapter 2 (the poem as arranged life) Chapters 1-5: we were introduced to a range of the lyric poet"s tools and material. Vendler (chapters 6-9): the goals or ends to which a poet employs these tools. Movement that inspire revolutionary changes in politics, social orders, etc. Lecture outline: romantic poetry and the turn to the self. Romanticism and philosophical change: the turn to imagination, feeling, and nature. Romanticism and sociopolitical chang: the turn to individual liberty and creativity. Romanticism and aesthetic change: formal strategies that result from these turns. Romanticism and philosophical change reacted against 18th century rationalism reacted against 18th century views of ordered society. Explored what was missing: the imaginations, feeling, and nature: romanticism and philosophical change feeling and the imagination feeling and nature the turn to subjective experience. William blake (1757-1927: blake was poor, songs of innocence. Repitition feeling (each line has same structure) Sound of the pain that is affecting.
