ENGL 125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Slide Projector, Father Figure, Stuttering

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 125
• Professor: Michael Collier

Document Summary

First thing encountered: cover (illustration--dc map, blurb) Front matter: acknowledgements (where they have been published, dedications), forward, table of contents (outline) Presentation of not only the poems, but also of the poet. How do the poems fit into reality. Read book beginning to end, make notes. He has a hard time doing this because the beginning of his life was hard with bad family relationships. Principle of disorder when mothers should be a principle of order (ironic) Cleanses the visual palette when blinking is intentional. Shutter of a camera closing and opening (repeated in book) His life is passing before him in images. All of the poems are the things keeping him up at night. First poem in book: how to begin a short film. Most predominant pattern: repetition of begin (15 times) Any creative process you start as many times as you need. No matter how many times it ends, it can always begin again.