EN108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Synesthesia, Astringent, Love Triangle

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7 Apr 2018
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Hilda (writer of poem below) broke a lot of conventions of the day - writing, relationships with. Love triangle and trying to find a literary voice. Context of her life, poetry can be biographical in terms of giving us a better understanding of how to read the poem. Every way ends, every road, every footpath leads at last to the hill-crest then you retrace your steps, or find the same slope on the other side, precipitate. I have had enough border-pinks, clove-pinks, wax-lilies, herbs, sweet-cress. O for some sharp swish of a branch there is no scent of resin in this place, no taste of bark, of coarse weeds, aromatic, astringent only border on border of scented pinks. All your coaxing will only make a bitter fruit let them cling, ripen of themselves, test their own worth, nipped, shrivelled by the frost, to fall at last but fair.

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