ENG303H1 Lecture Notes - Geoffrey Chaucer, Hubris, Throat Lozenge
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This december 25, christmas, nativity creating eternity, the poem itself. Birth poem + first major poem in career. Evoking certain morning of certain month rather than give specific. Salvation and sacrifice, redemption ongoing, always happening. Christ becoming flesh and giving up courts of everlasting day. Self conscious of own words being worthy of describing christ. Milton beating the wisemen to the chase to jesus. Being first, singled out and best, but joining the choir. Desire to be elevated but conscious of self. Addressing muse still, godly voice being channeled through im. Ode: elevating poem to mortal man vs hymn: to god. Drawing out last lines in each stanza for ode. Inversion in last line, hallowed fire reference to isaiah, coal to exalt. This star, division between bc and ad, between 3 wisemen and milton. Nodding to artistic origins and proving himself, besting them.
