ENGL 381 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Vietnam War, Transcendentalism, Robert Lowell
ENGL 381
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
English 381 W2D1 Lecture 1
Intro to Contemporary !
-Contemporary period !
•Distinct from modern!
•Starts after WW2 (1945)!
-General tendencies of contemporary poetry !
•Claiming the taboo subject !
-More personal!
•More democratic in voices !
•Opening up form !
-Connecting form and content !
•Informed by globalization, ethnicization, and feminization !
-Formative social events !
•WW2!
•Civil Rights Movement !
•Cold War!
•Vietnam War !
•Counterculture movement !
•Postwar boom!
•Feminism!
•AIDs!
-Poetics!
•Function !
-Personal, intellectual and social obligations function of the poem is bear witness
to human condition !
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Tuesday, September 25, 2018
•Craft !
-Best way to convey what is being witnessed!
•Mystery!
-poetry as experience and vehicle for expression in the only way it can be !
-Close Reading !
•Speaker (Tale, Teller, Tone)!
-Motivating incident!
-Tense!
-Attitude towards subject !
•Syntax and Diction !
-Sentence length !
-Sentence structure !
-Punctuation !
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•Sonic Texture !
•Imagery and Metaphor !
•Lineation !
•Mode and fixed form!
•Prosody !
•Setting !
-Temporal setting !
-Spatial setting !
-Facing It!
•Speaker !
-Veteran!
-Witnessed Andrew’s death!
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