EN 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Intertextuality, Vrml, Sulfur Mustard

• School: York University
• Department: English
• Course: EN 1001
• Professor: Peter Paolucci

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Situate the poem in its literary context and explain elements such as poetic form and structure, subgenre, tone, theme, imagery, symbolism, metaphor, or patterns of rhyme and rhythm. Support your interpretation and assessment of the poems context. Forms: literary properties of the piece: has to do with rhyme, meter, content (theme) is linked to the form (in many cases, the form emerges from the content) Pre-modern poetry vs modern poetry: pre-modern has a predictable range of themes and forms. Innovation in poetry for the 20th century is all about conforming to the form while simultaneously modifying it (knowing and playing with the rules in order to be creative) In most cases, if you cannot distinguish the type of poem (not sonnet, ballad, narrative, etc. ) it is most likely a modern poem. Shakespeare changes the typical ideal of persuading a white, blonde hair, blue eyed girl instead, he writes about a man, and then a black lady.