ITA200H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Canzone, Hendecasyllable, Sestina
20 Sep 2016
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Anaphora poem that had recurring words at the end of each stanza (e. g. , francis of assisi) Litany: prayer in which there is a series of invocations that is mentioned by the priest or chanted by the audience (e. g. , praise to the lord ). There are 5 kinds of lyric genres: sonnet, canzone, sestina, ballad, madrigal. There are other kinds of genres: epic, lyric, drama comedy and tragedy. Aristotle and northrop fyre distinguishes them as the following: genre, overall, is distinguished by the ideal relationship that the writer imagines. For example, when someone sits down to write a poem, they imagine a certain rapport with their audience. Epic: in epics, northrop calls it radical representation. In epic poetry, the writer feels they are anointed, whether it comes from their own wit or they were selected by god to be the mouthpiece of the divine wheel (e. g. , dante and. Sept 20, 16: epics mean the most important stories of the greek civilization.
