English 1022E Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Blank Verse, Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis, Tabula Rasa
15 Apr 2018
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Poetry becomes a kind of troubled mind. Woodswarth has been held at very high standard. Serious poem of subject at some length. Words worth makes blank verse- much less formal. Romantic return poem- how have i changed and what signi cance does that have. Trying to articulate a new understanding of how peoples minds work. Staging or enactment of wordwarth rejection of nature. The way we perceive the world depends on what is inside us. Content to record impressions on the eye and on the ear. Using a theory of the mind that goes back to aristotle. Tabula rasa- mind is a blank sheet when young, on which impression from external world are registered. Felt in the heart- in the blood. Beginning of a romantic sense of how the mind works. Mind cannot just see things but envision things. Seeing and hearing with an eye and an ear formed by imagination and spirit.
