English 2033E Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: The Sea Voyage, Edward Lear, Exaggeration

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 2033E
• Professor: Clarissa Suranyi

Document Summary

Edward lear, the complete nonsense of edward lear. English 2033 unit 5: edward learn invented (cid:498)nonsense(cid:499) as a literary genre for children; it forms a. Children often may no attention to the meaning of the words and care only about the rhyme and rhythm. Nonsense is a genre deeply rooted in entertainment. rewarded, evil is punished, and parents remain in control. Nonsense disrupts that order; it is just for fun with no moralistic agenda. poems/stories were didactic and moralistic: the focus is on language: how words sound, how they can be used. It encourages children to take pleasure in the sounds of words. Nonsense creates an orderly world apart from the world we live in. rhyme scheme is aab(b)a. The final line usually ends with the same word as the first line, giving the poem a circular structure, returning to us where we started.