ENGL 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Circumlocution, Narrative Poetry, Scansion
28 Mar 2018
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Midterm: scansion exercise of 3/2 short passages from various poems. Passages: most likely all will be new, active scansions, rather than passages we have seen before. Genre: a type or class of literature, used at any number of levels -- 3 classic levels identified by aristotle, classified by voice in poetry: lyric: one speaker, epic: narrator and characters speaking, drama: just the characters speaking. Although this term is endless, and can describe various other genres [pastoral, various dramatics comedy, history, fiction, non-fiction, short story, nature poetry, occasional verse ) Epic: a long narrative poem in which a heroic protagonist engages in an action of great mythic or historical significance: epic question and an epic argument, epic question: deep profound matrix for the story (ex. Must be a great question to result in a great poem: the epic usually begins in the middle of the action, not a slow beginning -- in medias res [in the middle of things].
