ENG 380Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Adagia, Aphorism, Sentimentality
13 Sep 2017
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In formal, even if you don"t know the language, you can appreciate the musicality of it. Aphorism is derived from the greek for marking out boundaries. It is raining. when it rains, it pours. The second brief statement has a rounded off quality. Formal elements are those that arise from the physical nature of the words themselves the look and sound of the actual words. Examples of formal elements: rhyme, alliteration, and syllabic meter. Thematic elements are those that arise from the symbolic or conventional nature of words. Notice that formal elements are something anyone can respond to but thematic elements can be responded to only by someone familiar with the language. However, in thematic, you need to understand the language to gain the meaning of the piece. A repetition of syntactic units can set up sound repetitions that operate like formal elements. To this it seems inevitably necessary to add provided life is the better part of literature.
