C LIT 30B Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Gossip, Misanthropy, Poetry Slam
13 Jun 2015
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This time: alceste as judge / critic: Hope, it is true, alleviates our woe, / and helps us for a moment to endure. Not really poetry, not exploring imagery, complaint. That ending! brilliant! romantic, yet so clear! (333) Alceste tries to take detour and not straight forward say it sucks. Someone i once knew was showing me his verse, and asking me my view. / i said, a decent man should struggle to control / the urge to write in verse , and bare his inner soul (343-6) Oronte has to realize he is insulting him. More cowardly? does not tell him directly. Inspiration from a doubtful source artificial lacks force contrived, and unconvincing full of clever puns, elaborate word-play, it"s much too far removed from what real people say . Alceste"s ideal: truth in life and art. His preferred poetry on trial: if the king had sold me cheap / his great town of.
