ENGL120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Little Red Riding Hood, Paratext, Reveille

• School: Macquarie University
• Department: English Literature
• Course: ENGL120
• Professor: all

Document Summary

Words in themselves can create or change the world. In this sense, as we will see, there is something radically performative about language and the study of literature is one of the most instructive and rewarding ways of deepening our understanding of this" (bennett and royle, p16) Importance of paying attention when you read the way you read poetry will be different from reading other literature. Poetry requires close reading", quite demanding (but rewarding!) With delicate eyes and ears (abbott and royle) We rst notice the formal quality of the poem on the page. Short lines that don"t go to the right margin (mostly) Divided into stanzas or verses, which may or may not be regular. Structure is clear, overt short, such as a lyric poem, of which there are many forms - sonnet, sestina, ode, elegy, and others; or long, such as an epic. Regular lines that rhyme such as couplets, tercets, quatrains, sestets or non-rhyming regular lines;