CLAC11H3 Lecture Notes - Light Poetry, Catullus, Sapho And Phao
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Poems ; impostered by symposium, people attended parties, organic and cultural based: roman poetry; biased against it, archaic poetry: diff kind of poetry, romanic: 18th -19th century. What does it mean for a poet/ poem to be self- conscious: cautals, horace and vergil; aware of genre they are writing. Concerned with meter. , topic and allcivness and hsow in their poetry so tey use their ppetry to get to larger meanings; reflect poets asthetic and stylistic preferences. Poems: that are meant to display to the reader what kind of poetics they are interested in and they like. Catacluus: born in city of verona, 87 bc : died very young. Catullus: look to the hellentis rev as there model: kata lepton: short and sweet, learned, it has to be scholarly. Poet novea and otium: sequel : reject something, they reject a taste of the text,
