ENGC15H3 Lecture Notes - Ekphrasis, Sylvia Plath, T. S. Eliot
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Metaphysical; take up ideas at the same time as 2 other things, object hood. Metaphor is a kind of a miracle; it transforms from one state to another state. Thought that metaphysical balanced idea and thing as a sort of miracle. John donne poem a valediction: forbidding mourning. Love is earth shaking, or earth shattering: to draw a comparison between him and other lovers, sublunary as a good word. Our love is greater than mere physical proximity: love based on merely physical terms or is it spiritual love. Love is precious: takes figure of gold, love to a jewel would make it look precious; love to gold, love changed in the way that it looks; one continuous thing. Objective correlative: the object, physical object could be a scene, that correlates to an emotional state, burke in his essay calls it scene act ratio, overcome with rage = smashing a valuable vase.
