ENG215H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Eurocentrism, Michael Crummey, Free Verse
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Newfie based on the fact that there is farming, lack of modern medicine at this time, baptisms are made for house calls, traditional spousal values. Premature baby cannot survive premature love cannot survive either. Nature is used to mimic the narrators physical and emotional turmoil during her pregnancy there are happy comparisons to nature and during the funeral there is not. They baptized their dead baby, she got pregnant again, he started to fall in love with her and they continued their relationship. Resembles poem in free verse; repetition of lines keep rhythm, emphasis and clarifies. (cid:862)alright a(cid:374)d see(cid:863) are used to (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:374)e(cid:272)t to liste(cid:374)er a(cid:374)d (cid:373)ake sure they u(cid:374)dersta(cid:374)d a(cid:374)d appre(cid:272)iate. Oral stories allowed for freeing and changed and not a static narrative. Power of the storyteller can control and manipulate the narrative coyote exerts power over the owl through words like a storyteller. Audience is kids, trying to put them asleep.