ENGC15H3 Lecture Notes - Robert Frost, William Cullen Bryant, Metaphysical Poets
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New criticism 1920s; involved with form. Anything you can apply to the poem from the essay. He defines his more complicated term in the first sentence; if you"re using a specialized term you may want to define it (ex. Subject matter: content would be something like subject matter; later he will bring up tropes, ex, but that would be form, this is how he distinguishes between many poetry. Distinguishing of things and ideas; that critics in general are concentrating on subject matter. Poetry with sound, narrative with plot; we find sounds in prose and lyric poetry with plot. The whole essay is structured in a dialectical structure: start out with a thesis, have antithesis, out of these two things you find a synthesis, three part structure; how thesis and antithesis come together, or synthesis. Structure of essay: part 1, part 2 and part 3, physical poetry; concerned with things.
