ENG308Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Nba Coach Of The Year Award, Effusion
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Line 15: the lute itself is turned into a metaphor for a coy maid half yielding to her lover. The wind blows through the harp and the strings respond to it. A poem in the tradition of the loco-descriptive poem (like tintern abbey) Line 5: he"s at pains to make sure we understand this is a love poem. Line 6: beautiful world in which he"s situated is functioning in terms of its symbolic passing. The retreat into pastoral ease becomes grounds for him to transform it into a medium for cultural expression. He sets up the scene its erotic or suggestive of erotic potential. The eolian harp is what he turns to. Two motifs in the poem and they interact. The first is the harp and the second is the breeze. First phase up to line 25: representation of a passive female and an active male who acts upon her like the breeze acting on the harp.
