ENG220H1 Lecture : The Rape of Lucrece
Document Summary
Renaissance, the way you became original was to take a story, or literary event that is already known and retell it in a new form. principle of repetition but with your own difference. Like many paintings on the rape, but artists made it their own. S makes poem new through network of references and allusions. First stanza: tarquin"s going to visit lucrece knowing her husband"s stayed behind. Not only riding a horse, he"s born on the wings of false desire, trustless wings, lust-breathed. Tarquin. it"s as if he"s inhabited by a lust thats"s like a lightless fire. fire underneath the radar, heat that will cause a huge eruption for lucrece the chaste and whole future of. Spiritual and mental condition, bot physical status of virginity, but the spirit and integrity. Through the taking of her sexual body (1-7) Tarquin"s ear first infected by lust through language.
