ENGL 1289 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Railways Act 1921, Margaret Atwood, Muriel Rukeyser
23 Apr 2016
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The birth of venus similar to venus transients (bococelli"s painting) The poem as mask rewriting of her own poetry (notion of rewriting, re-envisioning) We won"t address all the poems, but she wants us to read all of them. We"re moving forward through the 20th century. 1939 is when ww2 started! (in 1941 is when the us entered) 1989 is the end of the cold war! The fall of the berlin wall (the iron curtain between the east and the west) Marked the end of the cold war. Have distinctive decades in them (50s, 60s with a specific tone with 70s, and the 80s) 60s and 70s radicalism of the voices of descent. 80s is the fall of the cold war, and reinvestment of materialism: apocalyptic annihilation (the pessimistic view) Result of ww2 and throughout the whole period really. Changes the way in which we look at the global landscape. We perceive it as apocalyptic annihilation (squelches free voice)
