EN218 Lecture Notes - San Francisco Renaissance, Crystal Ball, Tetrameter

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19 Mar 2013
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Adams = political writer: godmother because of her mentor relationship with other poets, older. San fran renaissance romantics ballad. Ballad = narrative, rhyme scheme, conventional (structured aspect regular rhyme scheme, rhythm, meter) Amphibrach-ic tetrameter (4 beats per line, stressed syllable followed by unstressed) Became interested in robert duncan (berkeley renaissance) Adams poems are largely about the supernatural (fantastic beings in fantastic worlds) Stormy, fire, person looking into a crystal ball. Dark story, dalgarth=fortune and luck, possible hero, fame. Wife of the clerk has an affair with dalgarth. Clerk = wizard who summons the devil. Clerk wants demon to go after dalgarth because he slept with his wife, in revenge he tells demon to do above. Uneasiness by dalgarth who tries to outrun the demon, which he is unable to do. Dalgarth tells demon to show himself, and he does, completely on fire. Demon tells him that he"s going to kill him. Dalgarth moves into light, which shows his paleness.

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