ENGL 102W Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Anthropocene, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 102W
• Professor: Stephen Collis

Document Summary

Petrarchan sonnet, shakespeare sonnet theme of love. Modern sonnet political/philosophical ideas, nature, etc. Iambic pentameter b/c imitates natural english (to some extent) 1802, very descriptive like taking a pic. First 3 words have hard sound , no iambic pentameter wow. Flipped around, city is most beautiful thing on earth playing with boundaries of nature/society. Wordsworth is from countryside, surprised himself that city so beautiful. Personify the city this city now doth like a garment wear (4) Connection between fields, sky, city like a beautiful landscape. The city as part of nature open unto the fields, and to the sky. so the poem effectively erases the boundary between the human and natural worlds. Opposite tone of composed upon westminster bridge . We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! (4) Giving and receiving, transaction, getting and spending. Volta in line 9 follows petrarchan sonnet in style. It moves us not great god!