In-class Notes

6/11/07

*Literature doesn't ask you to believe, just suspend your views for the time being.
-Metamorphoses
*Make a willing suspension of disbelief.

*Poems and reading
-Sense- the meaning
-Sound

*Phonic Symbolism
-A sound communicates without being understood
*St (rick's blog)-makes a disturbing word usually.
*Sn-Coming from nose, usually not a pleasant word
*ex: Flem Snopes
-Good poets read into poems

*game in class: see how long we could go without saying "like" or "just"
-Those words usually are connected to a negative sentence and have found their way into our vocabulary on a daily basis.

*Sonnet #73
-Form of poem that's highly formal
1)English Sonnet-"Shakespearean Sonnet"
*(2)3 Quatrains and 1 couplet=14 lines
2)Italian Sonnet-Patrindo
*Octane and sestes=6 lines
*Clear dividing mark
-Volta-a shift from a problem to a resolution

*Most popular poem
-Divided into 3
-To His Coy Mistress is an example
-Closed and rhyming couplets only
-all 3 parts have to do with time