ENGB04H3 Lecture Notes - Syllabic Verse, Epic Poetry, Free Verse
Document Summary
Community standards decides what obscenity consists of and what poetry"s role is in that. Prehistory consists of a time before written text/recorded history. Poetry comes from the word poesis in greek which comes from the original homophoesis or blood-forming/making. Poetry is the act of making something where the poem is what is made. The act of poetry writing was referred through the old english word makynge which does not necessarily mean making something from nothing- that ideology came from the romantic period and poetry existed before this time. The maker was like a craftsman or artesian in that they would have had to complete something like an apprenticeship- learn the secrets of the trade and attain and assimilate a familiarity of the conventions of the craft. Thinking this way negates the myth from the romantic period of a poet as a conduit for celestial inspiration, rather early prehistoric poets probably thought of themselves as representatives of a traditional craft.
