ENGL 2393 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Poetic Diction, Pyridoxal, Internal Rhyme
19 Jun 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
STUDY OF POETRY
Jan. 9, 2018
Elizabethan Sonnet
14 lines
3 * 4 (Quatrains)
1 * 2 (Rhyming couplet)
Rhyming Scheme: ababcdcdefefgg
Iambic Pentameter
iamb - unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
pentameter – 5 * iambs
Alliteration
E.g. All alone
Words follow with the same first syllabus
**Read: Italian Sonnet, Irish Sonnet**
Jan. 11, 2018
How to Build an Argument
1- Make a specific claim about the text
2- Elaborate on that claim
3- Offer evidence from the text
4- Draw on secondary sources as context (evidence from the critical debate)
5- Draw a relevant conclusion about the claim
Simile
Comparison using like/as
Metaphor
Comparison not using like or as
-> Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare
-> Italian Sonnet
A sonnet can be two lines long
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Italian Sonnet
14 lines
Proposition: 8 (Octave)- 2 groups of * 4 lines (Quatrain)
Resolution: 6 (Sestet) - 2 groups of * 3 lines ) (Tercet)
Rhyming Scheme:
ababcdcd
cdecde
Batter my heart, three-personed God for you
As yet
E.g. " I'll have a whopper and a can of coke "
**SCANSION: BASIC RHYTHMS**
Consonance:
Assonance:
Paradox: an apparent contradiction; a situation, person, or thing that combines
contradictory features or qualities.
Conceit: metaphor or simile- exaggerated
Meta/physical:
Image:
Jan. 18, 2018
DIDN'T GO
Jan. 23, 2018
PROF DIDN'T SHOW
Jan. 25, 2018
'Horatian Ode'
Mimics horatian ode's in the sense of the poem
Horas himself fought in Rome, which eventually became the Roman Empire
His case; Ceasar reincorporated his poems into the war
Better if you can reincorporate with power and a positive attitude
Situation in history where a person has completely unended the meaning of
power
What matters in war; victory determines what matters
All of the old meanings then have to be represented, have a new theory, how
you justified that"
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Example:
"So rest/less Crom/well could/not cease"
'The classical model of a poet maintaining a difficult kind of integrity in a time of great
change'
(Coolidge, 111)
'The laws have been silenced by war'
'It is the condition, almost the definition of war in Lucan that Fortune replaces Justice'
(Coolidge, 113)
'Necessity'-'this Horatian figure [...] seems to have made a deep impression on Marvell's
mind'
114
If we are faced with a situation in which justice is served, there is a new
legitimation of power
'The rules of right that formally delineate power [...] the truth-effects that power produces'
(Foucault, 24)
The king rules by right
Envyingly inaded by him
How does this human suddenly becomes the Monarch?
Discourse says this person is qualitatively different- in which case becomes the
King
In a regime of power, that gets talked about which makes them the King
Power is a linguistic event-not because of your DNA, but due to truth of power
that becomes you the King
'Power, right, truth'
'What are the rules of right that power implements to produce discourses of truth'
(Foucault, 24)
Settling, or unsettled experience to see who can be in power
Who has the right to be settled? Linked to enforcement
Because you can give your rights, follows to the truth
Triangulation which links them together
"Power to implement the regime of truth"
What is going on in Marvell's poem
When he describes the beheading of the King, Marvell is careful not to dispute
the rights of the King.
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