English Poetry Notes
3 Pillars of Poetry
? Appreciation - process - enjoyment / interest (provocative - interest & evocative - emotion)
? Analysis - process
? Interpretation (changing) - product
Themes = tone (author's attitude to subject)
Process (learn) vs. Product (mark)
Snake (10)
? Judge others by what you learn
Let's not be unjust upon others
? Can't do something until it has its back turned
? Temptation
We know something is wrong, but we still do it
Can't break the cycle
To a Fat Lady seen from a train (13)
? Reflection: isolation & alone
Lonely
Judgemental
? Trundling through life
Maybe you aren't the conductor?
? Passing by life with tunnel vision
? Shielded?
The road not taken (21)
? Seasons
Spring = birth & rebirth
Summer = youth & adult
Autumn = middle-age / retirement
Winter = death
? Extended metaphor: fork in the road
? Make a decision
You will never come back and re make the decision
Don't over think, you'll make many
Ozymandias (25)
? 3 speakers: writer (inn/bar in italy / swiss), story teller, ozymandias
? S-sounds = desert wind
? Hand = sculptor (synecdoche)
? End of poem = pulls out of image
Cacophony & euphemism
? Emphasis = 2 syllable & 1 syllable (causes anticipation)
? Tyrant (cold command)
Sarcasm & irony
Sneering
Time & nature
? Aprocal image (anything can happen) - arrogance
? Warning to ego
Dover beach (130)
? Wedding Night
The world is empty
? We need something to fill the vacuum
? (love...?)
English: Erotic poetry, musings and photography.
The Lake Isle of Innisfree - geograph.org.uk - 826...
The Seeds and Fruits of English Poetry, oil on can...we are naked (nothing) without faith
? English Beach
? Life / Humans = a tide
We can only see the ebb
? Bad things (the decline.. when it goes away)
? But one day it will come back
A valediction:...