EN218 Lecture Notes - Gwendolyn Brooks, Necrophilia, Surrealism
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Stress that isolation is a result of a great divide between people"s experiences. Cultural divides = people living n the same city don"t even share the same weather/climate. Speaker is whole while rest of poem is fragmented. After 8th or 9th line of a sonnet, the voice and method of expression totally changes. Poetry was very serious in 50s/60s because poetry had to be liberated from academia. Poetry as a means for social change. Significance of certain things to find truths and concepts of universe. Form/content: taboo sexuality, parallel to homosexuality, satire (o"hara is gay, structure. Love them is visual and metaphorical center (someone love them is the casket itself) Could be stairs down into lowest morality or permissiveness: play on the sense of underground". Genre: ode = elevated, meditative, dealing with lofty thoughts and feelings, formal regularity, public work that you share with others, praising people or concepts. Be subjective without being confessional: new york school.
