Sidney whispers the ideas of Horace...and builds upon these ideas by elevating the poets.
Poets are chief among teachers; poets have the ability to inspire through "God"...tap into peoples emotions. Poem have noble law of a "golden world" ...and the world is "brazen"...bronze, inferior to the golden world the poet creates.
Winter Trees Cough Like Old Menby Eugenio Montejo
Winter trees cough like old men
about death's white nightmares
while the rain talks in Latin.
They cough about the sobbing tragic
ash, they bind valises for leaving,
they darken—and in the chill
of frost from the sun,
the lungs bristle to see coffins hidden
in the dry capes of kings.
Who is the speaker? words express : cough, death's, sobbing, tragic, darken, chill, frost, coffins, capes....A funeral? Latin used for burial rights?(metaphorical language) used for the funeral(literal scenario)...
When you use metaphors you have the vehicle and the tenor. i.e. The thing you are after and the way you get to it.
My life has stood-a loaded gun
by Emily Dickinson
My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun -
In Corners - till a Day
The Owner passed - identified -
And carried Me away -
And now We roam in Sovereign Woods -
And now We hunt the Doe -
And every time I speak for Him -
The Mountains straight reply -
And do I smile, such cordial light
Upon the Valley glow -
It is as a Vesuvian face Had let its pleasure through -
And when at Night - Our good Day done -
I guard My Master's Head -
'Tis better than the Eider-Duck's
Deep Pillow - to have shared -
To foe of His - I'm deadly foe -
None stir the second time -
On whom I lay a Yellow Eye -
Or an emphatic Thumb -
Though I than He - may longer live He longer must - than I -For I have but the power to kill,Without--the power to die--
Speaker? a human being, a person discussing their feeling of being "a loaded gun"...the language used allows an idea to be brought forth without saying the straight forward truth.
Harmony and balance....can be set to "The Yellow Rose of Texas" as Dr. Nelson so nicely sang for us in class!
Neoclassical critics....the unities...place, time and action.
Rule-bound...stick to a "composition as a rational and rule-bound process"
What are the forms the literature takes to reveal the metaphor?
can these rules be used for contemporary literature/films....?
the big fight is whether plays and poems have to follow rules...should these rules be broken? If it "ain't in the classics...then it ain't anything."
i.e. Shakespeare has plays in five acts...does this conform? is there beauty in tragedy?
continue reading...Dryden, Pope, and Johnson....pg. 284 and onward
What is the situation?
What attitude toward the situation?
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