ENGL 110- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 20 pages long!)
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Epistolary poems from epistle meaning letter : written in first person and addressed to someone in particular, can be considered dramatic monologues, written from the perspective of a fictional character. Letter as a genre: self-expressive, can be intimate, private, sometimes written but never sent, therapeutic, sometimes intended recipient is absent or dead, can be anonymous, can be authored by someone else for the sender. Crepe with edges of light expresses both disapproval of nostalgia for the kinds of relationships enabled by slavery. I remember your kindness,/ (9-11), etc: not nostalgic for how most blacks were treated under slavery. African americans treated as animals: forty stray blacks into/ an open boxcar (21-2) Horse has bit in mouth that slaves might also have: most lifestyle of freedom more desirable than luxury of plantation life. Living in the hothouse, has pink dresser. All the books are mine/ to use (interesting enjambment that disappoints expectations)
