ENG140Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Petrarch, T. S. Eliot, Enjambment
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Poetry & truth: history states what has happened, poetry states what can happen, poetry speaks a language of universals. Justice is hard to see even when it works (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause it"s a (cid:272)og(cid:374)iti(cid:448)e pro(cid:272)ess. Thus the claim about our generation being dumb is false!: complains about technology making you stupider is universal. Tutorials: read the (cid:271)ook (cid:271)efore (cid:449)e"ll dis(cid:272)uss the (cid:271)ook i(cid:374) tutorial, 15% of grade is tutorial participation. Final exam (may: short questions to be answered in paragraphs, some short essays (here"s 10, pick 7) If (cid:455)ou"(cid:448)e read the (cid:271)ooks, (cid:455)ou"ll do (cid:449)ell o(cid:374) the e(cid:454)a(cid:373) Prufrock love poems: first found extremely odd, to a traditio(cid:374)al reader, it did(cid:374)"t look like a poe(cid:373). Mount said: most influential poem of 20th century. Poetry before ts eliot: eg william woodsworth, written expression divided into discrete lines some lines have a natural pause at the end depicted by punctuation.
