ENGL 125 Study Guide - Final Guide: Paul Laurence Dunbar, Iambic Pentameter, W. H. Auden
14 May 2019
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Wh auden says that poetry is the clear expression of mixed emotions . Poetry"s two main themes are love and death. First casualty of war is truth, which we can register with euphamisms. Folk ballads: transmitted orally and turned into song. Ts eliot: good poets borrow, great poets steal . Patriotic poems are ironic because of modern divide in country. Obsessive subject: the art of losing love. Scale of loss becomes more dramatic as it progresses. Soldiers go to war for a purpose. Go to war to gain a sense of belonging and comradery. Do not go gentle into that good night by dylan thomas. Discusses death of every kind of man (large scale) Development of image starting in a song. Animals speak to human condition, bird is trying to escape. Written during the race riots after the red summer. Figures of speech comparing people to dogs and then monsters. Speaker is the head of j. byrd.
