CRWR 201 Lecture 4: Week 4 Notes
27 Jan 2019
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This week, we"ll work on using specific, concrete language instead of abstractions. By the end of this week, you will be able to: Understand the difference between concrete and abstract language. Have awareness of various reasons for selecting words (i. e. , pay attention to diction) Understand the difference between formal and informal registers. It"s important for you to learn the name of things, as specifically as possible. Keeps a poem buoyant/keeping it present/lifts the poem for us. Can cause for a poem to slow down. Has this way of turning us inward, away from the poem, so that we"re processing and we"re no longer engaged in the present world of the poem. Pulls us beneath the surface of the poem, in our own worlds and our own heads. Abstract language connects us to the world through our ideas words can come to be a root for a concept meaning. Puts us in tough with the world through our senses.
