English 3444E Lecture 2: Lecture 2
8 Mar 2017
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Lecture 2: lady of shalott, porphyria"s lover, my last duchess (dead. Mill essay: eloquence is public, poetry is private. Eloquence is more poised, poetry is more of a raw outpouring of emotion. They must be truthful about their emotions. They have to be like actors on stage who must pretend they don"t know about their audience: descriptive poetry: Porphyria"s lover: first 5 lines are descriptive. Tells us about how the poet is sad. Speaker could describe anything but chooses to focus on the wind, rain which is indicative that he is sad, agitated, etc. Projecting his feelings onto nature and the weather: speaker is a murderer, a psychopath. This is how an insane person sees nature: this is a poem about people who project their views onto nature. 1: dramatic monologues arose from criticism that narrative and description do not belong in. Sassy poets made it a thing even though critics said they shouldn"t.
