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Tekstanalyse og –historie F06

Tekstanalyse og –historie F06. Session Seven: Poetry II. Agenda. Repair work Genre specific aspects of study Group work The essay assignment. Repair work. Poetry contains images (foot, shoe) Images have to be interpreted to create meaning: entrapment / fetishism

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Tekstanalyse og –historie F06

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  1. Tekstanalyse og –historieF06 Session Seven: Poetry II

  2. Agenda • Repair work • Genre specific aspects of study • Group work • The essay assignment

  3. Repair work • Poetry contains images (foot, shoe) • Images have to be interpreted to create meaning: entrapment / fetishism • The nature of interpretation: part and whole – the hermeneutic circle (Abrams, ”Interpretation and Hermeneutics”)

  4. Poetry: genre specific aspects of study • Plath: meaning (?) and sound - the repetition of /u:/ (you, do, shoe, achoo, blue, through, &c): rhyme • Frank O’Hara: meaning (?) and sight – ”[…] Then onto the avenue where skirts are flipping above heals and blow up over grates.” (”A Step Away from Them”, ll. 8-11)

  5. Poetry: genre specific aspects • Larkin, ”This Be the Verse” • Syntactical organisation • Stanzaic organisation • Tone • Meaning

  6. Poetry: genre specific aspects • Philip Larkin, ”Aubade” • Why and how can Larkin’s poem be said to form an aubade? • The tone of the poem?

  7. Group work • Thomas Hardy, ”The Man He Killed” • Syntax • Stanzas • Tone

  8. The essay assignment

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