ENGB04H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Lyric Poetry, Ekphrasis, Subitism
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When there are variations in the iambs / structure, it is known as an inversion. Darkly i gaze into the days ahead . I gaze darkly into the days ahead. What is one"s "gaze" influenced by? keats. Description or vision of a still piece of art. Any poem that tries to bring into language something from the visual arts poetry. Can see a visually artistic piece all at once stevens. Last line in the first stanza of "anecdote of the jar" Made for a function of ease and simplicity. Seeing the movement of a blackbird"s eye. Perhaps be damned, either you know or you dont . Images should retain some sort of meaning. An image is that whch presents an intellectua and emotional complex in an instant of time. Is the presentation of such a "complex" instantaneously which gives that sense of sudden liberation; That sense of freedo from time and space limits.
