Notes from class #2

I'll start today's notes with a short poem from Janurary 22nd 2012. The lecturer of that day got all 300 or so students to write a poem explaining who we are. I wrote:

I am a boyish girl

And a superhero-detective-artist

DEFENDER of books

Tall ambitions.

It's an awful poem.


Notes From Class (now with more pictures!):

Little Red Riding more a cautionary tale than a fairytale

You can't separate thought from language

"The medium of drama is not words, but people moving around on the stage using words"

Expressing my melodramatic side in the bottom margin.

"To understand the poems, one must imagine one has written them"

Synecdoche - part figures the whole

Naturalists need to select/contrive parts of the world in such a manner that the relevance is in the real world itself

I remember this day so clearly. The trains were all delayed so I was
going to be late - so I thought about skipping class and going to China
Town instead, for a well-deserved vegetable steamed bun.

"The space around a poem is not blank space, but silence."

Can art be reduced to an ideology?

Modernity: sense of inhabiting the modern world, living in moment

As I've said before, university isn't fun 100% of the time.
I was SO BORED in this lecture.

Most poetry uses verse, but not all verse achieves the status of poetry. Prose doesn't subscribe to verse despite some writers attempting it.

Prose is to poetry as walking is to dancing.

Reality adheres to the imagination.

My talents know no bounds.

"Being a good poet is not about waving as many poetry flags your hands can hold."

"The creative process is never clean, never tidy. Flowing emotion like a punctured carton of ribena."

Larkin chose art over marriage.

I'm curious to know what the other half of
this conversation was.

Who narrates? Who is the narrative addressed to (narratee)? Does the narrator participate in the story or remain outside it? Does the narrator knows everything, only what a specific character thinks/feels, or only what characters actually do and say (external view)? Does the narrator speak in their own voice or adopt the voice of a character? Do the events happen in order?

Metonymy - compressed metaphor, omission of phrases

We use more standar language when we're focused on what we say
OR
We change our speech depending on who we think is listening

Thank you and goodnight.