ENG140Y1 Lecture Notes - Dramatic Monologue, Free Verse, World War I
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Art better than facts at conveying abstract principles. Literature requires triangle of: author book reader. In 1915 it didn"t look or sound like a poem". Just looks like a poem, rather than prose. Without reading a work it just looks like a poem, in shape and form. Uses allusion (reference to text outside of it) supposed to be accessible/meaningful to people reading it, readers understand references. Divided into discrete lines (end-stopped or run-on/enjambed lines) Used to use art to make inaccessible ideas more accessible (but last century it has been the other way around) Etherized" multiple meanings when used to describe a sunset. Grounds limits the grounds of the metaphor the extent to which comparison is valid. Similes: tenor-grounds-vehicle (tenor = object, vehicle = comparison, grounds links each) Both are using similes that are recognizable for its time. First use of anesthesia in boston around the time eliot published the poem.
