ENGLISH 131 Lecture 24: 11/30 Foust - Time Down to Mind
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Apostrophe cascades: contraxn & possession made strange. Middle age (cf. prufrock) as figure for poetic inefficacy. Sealing the u. s. archive (ww & ed as lost pwrs) Sealing the archive = engaging poets from the past to indicate a loss of their projects, instead of just figuring out where you belong in the genealogy. Prufrock"s tryna figure out how to insert himself as an innovator in lit tradit; his middle age is a way of trying to figure out another perspective ? but foust can"t reinhabit what"s lost. Poem for a while title: as thought a stretch of time is all the poem is for a while - like dedicated to a certain moment in time. Quiet abt the form it wears; ea/ line is 11 syllables long, but you don"t rly catch that (not a regular metric pattern) Quantitatv > metric; basically a form of duration - the while of the line happening.
