ENGB04H3 Lecture : ENGB04_February 7.docx
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In this chapter, vendler provides us with a rand of strategies for locating the different meaningful patterns and parts of the poem: three means of classifying poems, the narrative and the lyric impulses, questions for exploring poems. I am idea of home is (something abstract) Joy harjo, song for the deer and myself to return on . Classifying poems: inner form inner form and emotion/ subjective experience. Inner form and the parts of the poem: binary (two-part) poem or ternary (three-part) poem, how would you classify i am . Vendler"s advice for finding the parts (124) I am is a three part poem. For vendler, some of the ingredients of inner form are: sentences (124, person (125, agency (126-7) Every sentence has a subject and the subject is the agent of the verb. 3rd line moving i as a subject to his woes (that rise and vanishes: tense (127)
