LIT 499 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Masculinity, Winnowing, Romantic Poetry
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Notes on wordsworth, keats, bates essay on keats for 9/6. Juxtaposition of couch (vacant/pensive mood) and daffodils/nature scene (bliss of solitude) Wisdom of sailors and peasants about the weather regarded higher/wiser because they have a closer relationship with/work the land whereas scientists observe it from afar. To autumn"-biodiversity is the key to survival and adaptation of ecosystems. Agribusiness sprays the cornfields with pesticides, impatient of poppies and gnats, removes hedgerows, regarding them as wasteful . [ to autumn"] is concerned with a larger economy than the human one: its bees are there to pollinate flowers, not to produce honey for humans to consume. The poem is distinctly female-human figures (winnower, reaper, cider-presser) embody traditional woman"s work. Ecofeminists reappropriate and celebrate the idea of women"s closeness of the rhythms of mother earth . Masculinity and technology are associated vs the exploitation of women and the environment. Weather is a prime means of linking spatiality and temporality .
