ENG454H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Avant-Garde, Sophocles, Ironism
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Ezra pound the implications for the 21st century- - he"s become more of a background figure. The poet"s poet his influence is very implicit. -mad in two sense 1) clinical 2) he has lost reason both figuratively and literally. Importance of studying cantos use annotations for help at this stage pound was encapsulating everything he had done in this new world metonymy (works with associated fragments they implicitly point to a larger system of meaningfulness) vs metaphor (unconnected relationship) Presentation: need to present a written version of the presentation like an essay focus on one of the texts listed 3 page double spaced writing can refer to other writing or texts. Importance of the word troubadour means to find . - pound assumes all of western culture in his works studying the cantos will help touch the sources of western traditions. - pound was briefly a teacher in crawford, indiana. Definitely not for the conventional system of morality.
