ENGL 3045 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Energizer, Mimesis
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Wordsworth is crucial for this: his poetry comes from incidents and situations from common life, described in language really used by people within those situations. Focuses on the elements of poetry, the subject matter, but with a radically new emphasis. No more kings and queens that are not relatable: this is about common women, men, humble and rustic life contain the essentials of the heart. Rather than stress reason, wordsworth stresses passion and emotion. Wordsworth is hopeful that the reader and poet will overlap emotions. What is art"s relationship to history: classical: aristotle"s perspective. In genre, such as a tragedy, alter many stages tragedy has finally come into its natural form. There is a system of genres: they have evolved, reached their final stage, and will not change: the genres are what they are. This aided classical thinkers because genres came with rules; there was no reason to divert from tradition.