English 1022E Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Psychodrama, Hungry Heart, A Modest Proposal
6 Mar 2015
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Teleology: first and final causes (aristotle: the goal for the sake of which everything is the way it is ) Epistemology: ways and means of knowing , negation of the present , displacement of the present . Written 1852, published 1855 anticipates modernist texts even being written then. Era of social romanticism poets asked to support values of middle class society. 2131: came on to him as a dream, written in one day. Reluctant to explain what it signified, once agreed with friend"s suggestion that the meaning might be expressed in the statement: he that endureth to the end shall be saved (cf. Most readers have responded to the poem in this way, finding in the story of roland"s quest an inspiring expression of defiance and courage. Other readers find that the poem expresses despair more than enduring hope, and it is at least rue that the landscape is as grim and nightmarish as in 20th century writings.
