ENGL 1F91 Lecture : Lecture 5
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Sonnet 64 - edmund spenser (436) ideal woman. Shakespeare"s sonnet, overturns all of stated in spenser"s. Leda and the swam - william butler yeats (2405) Something strange about the look of the poem. Has something to do with the strangeness of the poem. Broken wall is used as a metaphor for the rape or broken hymen. Greek and roman mythology and christian myths all operating at once. Drama includes romance, tragedy, comedy, or history writing. Epic is one step up from drama. Hierarchy as it appears in the renaissance. Erratically different that is strange, violent and different. The brute blood of the air is another way to refer to zeus. rhythm: where the beats fall in a line of poetry. Metre/meter: where the beats fall in a line a poetry. U / u / u / u / u / Scansion: to read a line of verse and assign marks to accented and unaccented syllables.
