ENG364Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Blazon, Assonance, Obstetrics
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Born in san francisco, lives in the uk for a bit. Poet of terror - addresses a terror a lot of people don"t want to deal with -> overcompensation. Subjects: fear, confusion, uncertainty (not what he"s praised for) Parents died when he was young; wife died suddenly; son killed himself. Title: is the wall the object or the subject. Wall" = made into a concept, abstract. Every year it gets knocked down by something else. Entropy: everything goes towards disorder and mix if we don"t fix it. Something there is that doesn"t love a wall - syntax is unclear. Force or entity that can"t be named (ineffable, don"t fully understand) Perhaps violent and benevolent matter of nature. Speaker who is not frost, character/neighbour being addressed. Believes there"s no point to the wall. The wall doesn"t protect property, but every year they do this; hard work and the speaker doesn"t want to do this but is the one initiating it.
