English 3667F/G Lecture : Lecture 010 - Emerson and Poe
23 Dec 2011
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Bi-polarism, manic depression: narrator coming into world that is unhealthy; parable about artistic creation, the oval portrait vitality, morality. Narrating character who talks about two other figures; two women who are his first and second wife; lyegia and the lady rowena. His first wife who he loves very much dies, then he marry someone who he hates and she dies; first wife comes back and takes over the body of the second wife. Meaning of the story lies in between the relationship of the two women to the narrator. Narrator is passionately attached and dependent upon lyegia. Marries rowena for reasons we do not know, and immediately hates her. Lyegia = very intelligent, associated with german gothic. He doesn"t know her name, or where they met, she comes into his room like an opium dream and he only knows her presence through her voice. Associated with 2 generative cultures: western and homeric greece; both, she"s everything.
