DANCEST 805 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Gerard Manley Hopkins, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear
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Symbolist poetry; poetry as an incantation or spell, as a kind of thing that has to do with ordinary speech but also as something that has its own heightened reality: gerard manley hopkins and oddness. Felix randal"; one aspect of this poem that might be worth looking at is that he manages to find rhymes on the word. Randal; very moving elegy; the downturn into pathos and loss; he has a fascination with words felix" is latin for fortunate, but hopkins thinks of how unfortunate he is; makes us feel better about ourselves through helping others. Only what word wisest my heart breeds dark heaven"s baffling ban bars or hell"s spell thwarts. The jabberwocky": exemplary example of nonsense; one can get a sort of meaning out of it; some kind of parody of some kind of beowulf encounter between the hero and the monster/jabberwocky that he slays. Brillig" time of dinner, the close of the afternoon.
