English 2230F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: E. E. Cummings, Great Ormond Street Hospital, Jingoism

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 2230F/G
• Professor: Allan Pero

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You can explore an issue or poem, write a criical analysis, write a creaive response (literary, poeic), a work of icion, write your own sonnet e. e. cummings: next to of course god america i. It is a sonnet, but not a shakespearean or petrarchan sonnet. Rhyme scheme: ab ab cd cd efg feg: it is 14 lines, iambic pentameter in general (but the rhyme scheme is diferent) In two cases he doesn"t inish the sentence: land of the pilgrims" (should end with. It is like he is saying the country has had a long history and now it is over. It is the same disjointed, illogical, nonsensical speech we hear when a poliical candidate like donald trump or sarah palin is riing. We don"t have to worry because patrioism is the proper answer to every problem. The so-called heroic happy dead" are beauiful because they did it in america"s name.