English 3444E Lecture 3: Lecture 3
8 Mar 2017
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In ruling out language as power, mill is dismissing the idea of political poetry. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world - shelley (goes against mill: browning"s early poetry was very shellian. In his mature poetry he distinguished himself from shelley more: a poem about eloquence, and the power to make things happen with his words (my last. Duchess: poetry makes nothing happen - w. h. My last duchess review: when negotiations are over at the end the servant stands aside to let the duke go first, but he says nay we"ll go down together in a false effort to level the power relations. Knowing he has power but pretending he doesn"t. The bishop orders his tomb : speaker of the poem is a bishop on his death bed, and defines everything he does based on his rival gandalf .
