Notes from class #1

So I might have mentioned that I finished university. Over the past three years, I've been writing notes in class - I've got six notebooks to show for my hard work. Except... I wasn't always writing notes about the book or poem we were studying. I have decided to write a collection of posts dedicated to the things I learnt in class - or the things I wrote in my notebook while supposedly learning in class. I give you...

Notes From Class

Three Principles of Poems:

A game of hangman from a seminar
that wasn't that interesting, clearly.

1. Sex
2. Death
3. Writing poetry

Chaucer: the father of English poetry

Imitation isn't plagiarism - positive

Romantic idea of the rebel

A cardinal sin! -describe/identify feature of verse with no analysis - need relevancy

Female: biology
Feminine: behaviour
Feminist: separates biology from behaviour

Snakes don't have ears. Snakes are lactose intolerant. Snakes can't travel on rope.

Apotheosis: turning into a minor divinity e.g. stars

Ideal narrator and reader share beliefs about the story.

Thou = you
Thy = your

Reformed alcoholic - transcendence?

Reality can only be accessed through subjectivity. Language gets in the way of reality.

Titles may be suggestive

Short stories focus on single interaction of character - before and after aren't necessary. Novels require coherence in plot, everything must be planned and explained.