ENG 1121 Study Guide - Emily Dickinson, Greek Chorus, The Tyger
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Songs of the experience: snowing the 2 contrary states of the human soul (1794) Songs of innocence: innocent children, mother with three children. And his bro died, his spirit visited him & taught how to illustrate the design. Poem notes: 2 stanzas, five rhymed couplets (aa,bb,cc and etc. , song/or chant- like quality, child speaker, form= question (1st stanza) and answer (2nd stanza) Metaphor: a comparison between two unlike things that is implied rather than directly expressed. Symbol: a thing that represents or stands for something else. Allusion: an expression designed to call something to mind without mentoring it explicity; an indirect or passing reference. Lyric poem: it expresses an emotion and does not kill a narrative. Six quatrains, each with couplet rhymes and a rapid singsong meter. Meter= the pattern of syllables in a line. Four trochoic feet= four stressed sounds per line. Trochaic feet = catalectic: alliteration, symbol of experience, eloquent language.
