ENG150Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter All: Indentured Servant, Lyric Poetry, Blank Verse
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Poetry: narrative (epic), dramatic, and lyric: much ancient literature is poetry of some sort, i. e. it makes use of metre or rhythm and other forms of patterning. But they both contain many inset poems: lyric poetry usually has narrative features but is a single, sustained utterance that is often closer to music. We will return to lyric later this term. The tempest as dramatic poetry: shakespeare"s dramas are written primarily in blank verse, i. e. , poetry in iambic pentameter (5 stresses or beats per line but without rhyme). Iam: u: pentameter: 5 iams or stresses, different from sonnets, which are also in iambic pentameter but have rhyme schemes, shakespeare"s lower-class, comic characters usually speak in prose. Our view of prospero"s magic is his art a figure for modern technology or for print culture, theatre, etc. Our view of his purpose in raising the tempest, etc. Our view of shakespeare"s representation of caliban.
