ENGB04H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter W5.2: Caesura, Anthropocentrism, Sentience
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Caesura: a pause in the middle of a line in poetry, poem about parts. Enjambment: continuation of a sentence or clause over a line-break, a poem about naming things. Describes an analysis from the perspective that human beings are the central, only, or most significant animal species. The assessment of reality through an exclusively human perspective. An analysis from the perspective that there is an inherent value of non-human species, ecosystems, and processes in nature. Called a mystic: communication between a person and a diety, does not really apply in the strictest sense, more aptly called a visionary poet. Poses same question to lamb as to the tiger: difference in tone and attitude between. Words associated with power associated with tiger: anvil, hammer. Provokes emotion of fear: compelling, frightening, forceful. Anvil and hammer is suggestive that the tiger is made through force. The tiger: poem of experience, question he poses to tiger.
