ENGL 125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Carpe Diem, Extended Metaphor, Paul Laurence Dunbar
4 Mar 2019
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Poem: do not go gentle into that good night. Reporter when he was young, bu would go to pub instead and made up the stories. Said poetry was an over clothed blindness to a naked visionstrength of labor . Record of his individual struggle from his darkness to light. Extravagance of language held in check by formal watertight craftsmanship. Villanelle: is a plait of gold (first line) and silver (third line) threads into which is worn a third: a rose colored thread (middle line that changes) (a braid) Scale: death in general, every kind of man. Chiaroscuro: moving from light to dark (shadow) Notion of carpe diem , seize the day. Selfish, to die is for our benefit. Melody is from the form of the poem. Song of slaves, father left south on underground railroad, went to canada. Elevator operator, worked in library of congress. Wife wrote that windows had bars in the library of congress.
