ENGC15H3 Lecture Notes - Robert Frost
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But we still practice close-reading and shit. Inject more philosophical rigour: very interested in form (father of formalism, ransom poetry: a note on ontology. Description: what it is genre, form, what is there: some think within description, there already is evaluation, tacitly some kind of judgment. Evaluation: good/bad, how it scores among sonnets: some think this is taste-making, subjective. Ezra pound"s in a station of the metro. In the 20s, moore"s anthology: totes pure poetry with particularity and shit. Idea: these faces in the crowd , faces are part of things larger, but they"re also totally individual from each other. Idea: apparition sort of spiritual implications and shit. Idea: nature imagery used to liken a scene that"s totally human- engineered (by humans, not of humans, but still technically of humans) In two lines, he"s making lots of activity happen. Even in its most thinginess, a poem will have: scarry, on beauty and being just idea.
