English 3444E Lecture 5: Lecture 5

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 3444E
• Professor: Matthew Rowlinson

Document Summary

Lecture 5: browning: childe roland to the dark tower came: browning"s characters are over interpretive of the world, idea of being trapped in your own work of art is useful when thinking about browning. Not just relevant to browning though, lady of shallot also. Art is something you can get trapped in, something that can prevent you from experiencing the world: there is a hallucinatory quality to the poem, not a realistically represented material space, childe was an older english word. Means knighthood: this is a poem about mental, not physical life. When you step off a road you can always turn around, see the road again and return down your original path. You can"t unsay, un-think or un-see something though. We are in the world of childe roland"s thoughts as much as we are in the real world he inhabits.