English 2230F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: William Carlos Williams, Free Verse, Marianne Moore

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 2230F/G
• Professor: Allan Pero

Document Summary

Adams: on one level it is a case of anything goes" (there is no consistent verse form or rhyme scheme), but that doesn"t mean that you can simply write anything. There are 3 ways of thinking about poetry: didacic. Its only value is what it can teach us/what lesson it can provide. Poetry has no truth; it can only provide the illusion of truth. We judge poetry in terms of its rhetorical efects. If literature can"t teach you something, what possible value does it have? (its rhetorical efects: romanic. Art/poetry alone is the basis for/capable of truth. Poetry is the deiicaion of everyday life. : classical. Its purpose is to create a peace treaty between poetry and truth. It is a form of catharsis (a purgaion or puriicaion of thought) It doesn"t claim to have any cogniive funcion. On one level, free verse is working against didacic poetry (it is not trying to teach us a lesson)