ENG140Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: T. S. Eliot, Smog, Free Verse
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Fri sept 14 2018 tutorial start next week. Readers trained in verse didn"t see prufrock as a poem. Etherized: no choice, has simply happened to the patient. *mallory ortberg, texts from j alfred prufrock. Literature is a product of the time. Departure from rhyme not abandonment of rhyme. Free verse did not eliminate rhyme, made it more effective b/c emphasized other literary devices (e. g. internal rhyme) We enjoy repetition of sound & words. Music replaced poetry b/c music still rhymes. E. g. lines that don"t rhyme point out ones that do. Spoken by character who is not the poet. About character & accidental realization, not drama. Have to write w/ sense that all of literature is heritage to use & modify. I. e. must absorb the past/history into modern/contemp art. Agent of shock is identified as modern. Similarities of un chien andalou & prufrock: primary actor is passive, modern force damages the senses.
