English 2307E Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Inscape And Instress, Sprung Rhythm, Dover Beach
4 Mar 2014
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Both of these poets argue that the secularization thesis (victorian society becoming more secularized) is too simple. They suggest that there are still people with a traditional faith and bring that into their poetry: faith and doubt are reciprocal they can go together. During wwii it was a spot where they could keep watch for the. This could be seen as a calm coming to the storm, or a case for the opposite (everything is changing) He uses language to trigger an immediate experience (convince readers that they are feeling the divine at work in all of creation: material language is physical. In this poem, the lines are loaded and compressed. Language isn"t just a bunch of ideas it has to be produced through our bodies (between teeth and lips and mouth) The words are the things (the poem is a material object) In expressive language, words are a vehicle to convey a larger meaning.
