ENGL 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Present Tense
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Different romantic poets going for the same projects. Seen in imagery, style, and deeper message they are trying to communicate. Big part of romantic project is to make literature not about particular stories, political attitudes, and entails a change in how we communicate: what it means to tell a story. Communicate on a level of sharing emotions and experiences in a way that may define clear articulations. The sublime effect of grief, mourning in simon lee. Invites readers to open up to similarly sublime experiences. Really saying you as the reader, as a spirit of democracy, are capable of articulating the story. Ironic tension in the way in which simon lee starts out and ends by saying the opposite: i must leave you to deal with it and make sense of it yourself. The mariner"s destiny has been to wander and find people ready to hear his story.
