ENGL 381 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Gwendolyn Brooks, Enjambment
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Lineation: emphasizes the end of the line, emphasizes the beginning of the next line. End-stopped lines: end of a syntactic unit. Enjmabed line: breaks in the middle of a syntactic unit. Extreme enjambment: the we is isolated, like jazz. Going against the main beat: syncopation, removing the enjambment outs the we with the author. Units of meaning: lineation creates layers of meaning, unit of syntax. Meaning arises from syntactic sense: unit of line. Meaning arises by being isolated on a single line. Highlights the word pressure: could the speaker have been abused by the father. Di erent means of signs before we learn it means his name: enjambed. His carpenter"s apron always bulged : end-stopped. At the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, south carolina, 1989. First 4 lines are iambic and enjambed. Line 11 who had no guide, no stone is a question on its own but a sentence on the stanza.
