* Poetry ch. 1: What is Poetry?
Notes:
-Poetry's chief concern, according to Perrine, is, perhaps ironically, experience.
-We read poetry because it brings enjoyment (not because we should eat our vegetables).
-Poetry is something central to existence, central to being human ("This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh...").
-We are spiritually impoverished without poetry.
-Poetry is condensed prose. It says more and says it more intensely, according to Perrine.
-A poem may have a moral but does not need a moral.
Read "The Eagle" (pg. 729) and discuss what distinguishes the poem from a wikipedia article (on the same subject of the eagle). What can we say poetry delivers that prose often does not?
Next read "Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the Bunt." (pg. 1031)
- The son finally learned a lesson from his father. How does the poem affect the reader in ways that a prose summary of the lesson would not?
* Dickens Video (29 min.)
* J21: Answer whilst you watch
HW: Read ch. 3-4
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