ENGL2605 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Equals Sign, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Mitosis
9 Oct 2018
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The conversion of tokens between these two mediums is to be taken for granted in taking little or no effort to accomplish - to read aloud from a text. We have to regularly be confronted by the complexness of their interconvertibility that we presume to be unproblematic, in order to recalibrate the propriety so that it remains such an unproblematic practice. In this lyric, the verb "to tell" applies indifferently to speech and writing. Poem talks about admiring and advertising, indiscriminately to "eye" and "ear" because each speech is entangled with the other regardless of importance. Therefore, the long pause tell us that the poem is an equation: e. cumming"s "r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r" We can tell that it is literary with considerable difficulty, and only partially at that. We read recognising whole words, rather than the individual sequence of letters and by following the laws of spacing and punctuation and by suppressing any tendencies to distract ourselves by homonyms etc.
