EN 1602 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Plur, Edmund Spenser, Birdcage
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Difference and similarities in how the theme is treated in relation to genre. Constantly cross reference both texts all throughout the paper. Don"t write one comparison then second comparison and finally a total comparison. Organizational structure based on points of comparison and points of contrast. A strict definition is difficult because of diversity of form (odes/ largest category of verse form marked by its songlike quality melodious . Lyre emotion of a single speaker while choric was a collective voice individual marked by its subjectivity single unified expression of usually same kind of emotion . Memorize iambic, trochaic, close/open verse, sonnet, be able to replicate in sentence form. With usual regular metre of iambic pentameter (dominant foot) Lots of experimentation with whether we look at italian petreachan. That"s how we determine what kind of sonnet. Then scan the metre because not all sonnets are in iambic. The regular rhyming pattern determines the type of sonnet we have.
