ENGL204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Anthropomorphism, Individualism, Synecdoche
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Not easily accessible or easy to read. Using song; not relying on technology - using voice. Perspective - uses visual to connect his personal life to nature. Sight, but focus more on touch (processes world through touch - blind, little children/infants) Trying to bypass everything artificial, and be real and discover things for himself. Need to make your own decisions and opinions; reject everything that we see as being your resource for obtaining knowledge - be your own resource - use your own knowledge and ideas. Right to be yourself - whatever that might entail. Simply describing the gist of each person"s everyday life. He"s a part of everyone, and everyone is a part of him. From all walks of life; all interwoven (no sense of hierarchy; everyone and everyone"s work is equal) Expansive - he can"t stop writing (singing) Using writing techniques - like dashes; (so did edgar allan poe) Like whitman, have a sense that everything is circular.
