what is poetry InformationExperience The Eagle He clasps
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what is poetry?
Information/Experience • The Eagle – He clasps the crag with crooked hands; – Close to the sun in lonely lands, – Ringed with the azure world, he stands. – The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; – He watches from his mountain walls – And like a thunderbolt he falls. • Alfred Lord Tennyson
• It can broaden our experience--make us acquainted with a range of experience we might have had no contact with • It can deepen our experience--make us look at daily life in more detail, more feeling. • It shouldn’t be confused with morality or moral lessons, nor should we always expect it to be beautiful.
• Look at p. 829 -- Geary Hobson – Are all parts of it beautiful? – Does it relate a moral?
Poetry builds a relationship • You’ve got to have a poet and a reader, an invested, interested reader for poetry to work, to enhance experience. • Sometimes poetry isn’t easy. So, you’ve got to work at it, give yourself over to it, experiment with it, be playful.
Poetry as multi-dimensional language • Involves the reader’s • • intelligence senses emotions imagination
• See p. 722 -- William Carlos Williams – Spring and All • • How does it engage your intellect? How does it engage your senses? How does it engage your emotions? How does it engage your imagination?
Dramatic Situation • • Who is the speaker? Who does the speaker address? What is the context? -- Response Papers Donne Coleridge Harjo
• To His Coy Mistress, p. 638 • My Last Duchess, p. 684 • Who speaks? To whom? On what occasion?
