ENGL 3550 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Sylvia Plath, Perfect And Imperfect Rhymes, Enjambment
3 Mar 2017
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Slightly longer than version we are working with. We require of a poem that the words spring toward each other in magnetic attraction . In doing close reading of poems opening 1st 3 stanzas a lot of detail will be trying to think of how compression or intensity is induced with techniques. Compression, intensity: possible interpretation of some effects and implications. Figures of speech/tropes: persona (biblical, historical, mythological) Lazarus jewish figure raising from the dead. Phoenix bird died and reborn out of the ashes: simile to metaphor (stanza 2 to stanza 3) Pronoun use, syntax: i as agent. Sense of power becomes complicated as poem moves forward: subject of active verb, it : unclear pronoun reference. Committing suicide: power directed and reversed. Listen to poem again listen closely to sound and form. Herr german mr. sign of respect: taken away in later version.
