ENGLISH 45B Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Blank Verse
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The language of the age is never the language of poetry . Ruined cottage : a ruined house, four naked walls/that stared upon each other" (31-2) Michael : a struggling heap of unhewn stones!" (17) --very fitting; this infusion of such an ordinary object is exactly what wordsworth sets out to do. Urbanization: the increasing accumulation of men in cities . Popular mass media: the rapid communication of intelligence i. e. newspaper. Preface: the feeling therein developed an importance to the action and situation. Poems must now have burden of restoring the mind"s attendance. Voice remains too elevated to appeal to lower classes of reading and writing. **tries to open poetry to all classes of men (i. e. ordinary speech) Nothing is beneath the application of poetry. At the center of each poem is a ruin. End of the poem transgresses through time rapidly to expedite the unbearable reality of death.
