ENGLISH 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Kral, Indep, Ob River
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Majuscule/lowercase left/right/u/down/middle revising whitman politically via formal citation representational equity. Baraka tactical paranoia vs political analysis (tv vs das kapital) Ginsberg"s poems are formally simple; also should be familiar to us, whitmanian. Nonmetrical line - insist on id as verse lines, but look/sound like prose. Anaphora, left-margin rhyme intense parataxis ( kral majales stacks indep clauses w/ and ) Ginsberg and baraka, writing in 50s/60s 100yrs after whitman"s hopes for america"s perfectibility. Have very diff accounts about america"s/politics" actuality and what they can be. ^ several reasons to feel like periphery of what counts as dominant subject w/in their states/languages; privileged position of non-privilege to use whitman formally while departing from his polit vision -> ironic/charged contrast. Kinda like eliotic formula, use the past w/ a difference; reinhabit form w/ a diff charge. Kral majales literal instance of starting in medias res, w/ and .
