ENGC15H3 Lecture Notes - New Criticism, Precious Metal, Objective Correlative
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Burke"s final point is that in some of these translations, you miss the linguistic activity. The sensual matter here, the intense linguistic activity. Even when summarizing, a lot of the poem as an object of itself gets lost. Balance idea and thing into a sort of miracle. Metaphor is somewhat a miracle: transforms one thing into another state. John donne poem: our love is greater than physical proximity, we"ll always be together even though we"re apart, lump of gold = love between two people. So with the malleability, love can also be beat out to thinness. The metaphors, the dictions, etc: this poem is concerned with objects so much that it ignores thinginess. Objective correlative: an object/scene in literature that objectifies an emotional state: scene-act ratio in burke"s essay. Ex. not precisely about an object, but a scene and an act have a relationship with each other. Act: coming into adulthood from lots of stimuli; scene: new york city: ex.
