HUMAN 1A Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Scabbard, Pathos, Ekphrasis
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The ends of the iliad: some aspects of poesis: poetic craft (techn , eloquence rhetorical force and verbal form. I am not the man to order men : pathos the orchestration of feeling. Iliad 11. 31-42: the madeness of the made thing: artifactuality, ornamentation: hilt and scabbard of agamemnon"s sword. To kill: sword honed, blade burnished bright. To display wealth: golden studs, silver sheath, golden straps: shield: externalize fear of the wielder and instill in enemies. Protect wielder: function of poetry, it is the privilege of the poet to bestow kleos, ensure that one continues among the living; human memory is vulnerable to losses, but poetic memory produces immortality. Sappho, fragment: refuses to name rival, forgotten. 2. 573-584: muses, daughters of zeus: you know all things (name: foreground constructive principles by which anything is made; not just make memory and distribute honor.
