HUM 151 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Geoffrey Chaucer, Dramatic Monologue, Petrarch
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*shakespeare sonnets do not have titles, just numbers. What is it: fiction, novel, short story, poetry, narrative, dramatic, lyric, aka shakespeare, nonfiction, biography, essay, formal. Poetry: narrative, epic, ballad, metrical romance, geoffrey chaucer, the canterbury tales, narrative, dramatic. *close reading- literary form of a formal analysis. Chaucer"s (cid:862)the cook"s tale(cid:863: how to read narrative poetry, like regular prose, don"t stop at end of each line, where are the sound structures, alliteration, consonance, assonance, the canterbury tales, sound structures, plot and ending. Hakespeare"s (cid:862) even ages of man(cid:863: main character is cynical, describes each age in a grotesque and mean manner, baby puking, wining schoolboy, lover singing like a furnace, dramatic poetry, dramatic monologue. Literary devices: metaphor, allegory, abstract ideas put into the form of something else, each age of humanity being put into human form, specifically human, symbols, none in this poem, can take place in anything, often animals.
