ENGL 40761 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Homeric Hymns, Hugh Kenner, Buckminster Fuller
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Began in (cid:853)9(cid:854)(cid:852)"s and continued writing to the end of his life - 50 years of work in 120 cantos. Ovid metamorphoses: greek and roman gods and goddesses involved in moments of transformation, retelling of greek myths, time of jesus (published in 8 ce) Dante tries to bring together all the knowledge available to a smart person in his time. Love quest in the 3 realms of the afterlife (hell, purgatory, heaven) The virgin and the dynamo notion beatrice = mary (center of the divine comedy) Can tie intimate personal spiritual growth together with fraught politics, philosophy, Inclusion of personal experiences and science of the time. Pound defines an epic as (cid:498)a poem including history(cid:499) Faltering aspect of his epic that differentiates it from dante love is not the center. Buckminster fuller called this a self-interfering pattern slacken, tighten, splice in different kinds of rope but the pattern remains the same.
