ENGL 253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Rita Dove, Cleanth Brooks, Authorial Intent
5 May 2020
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Poetry: rich with language that doesn"t behave in familiar ways. Language at its most distilled and most powerful rita dove. The best words in the best order coleridge. Poetry is always unbearable in terms of the tension it creates in its meaning nicole broussard. The word poet: etymology: history/cause of work, greek poien (to make, piled up letters as meaning making. Heresy of paraphrase: cleanth brooks, cannot possibly paraphrase the full meaning of a poem, said we should consider poetry as an experience, not a mere statement about experience or abstraction. Sapir-whorf hypothesis: linguistic relativity language affects cognition and behavior. Intentional fallacy: coined by wimsatt and beardsley to refer to the misguided assumption that a work"s meaning resides within the scope of the author"s intentions. The meaning of a text evolves as it passes through cultural contexts, critical climates and different readers. Even at the moment of composition, the author cannot be aware of these unconscious forces.
