ENG140Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: White Noise, The Beat Generation, Don Delillo
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Counterculture, existed in america outside the mainstream. Welcomed same sex desire and non-traditional relationships. What: a speaker / poet who doesn"t fit in. A lonely and alienated creature who doesn"t conform and fit it to traditional. Penumbras: a partially shaded areas, the part of the eye , shadowy area where light and dark blend. An in-between of light and dark : a faint intimation of something undesirable; a peripheral region; a group of things only partially belonging to some central thing. Relates to the poems critique of the way of life. A passing reference, without explicit identification, to a literary or historical person, place, or event, or another literary work or passage (abrams, Allows you to access another layer of meaning. Poets like ginsberg, asking what place does poetry have in the modern world. Leaves of grass 1855 100 years before ginsberg poetic revolution. Focused on changing on what a poem could talk about and what it could look like.
