3. Breaking Poetic Conventions Flashcards
What changes?
His poetry?
Accessibility: put yourself at the same level as readers. A poetry as a bible? Is it intellectualised?
Whitman’s poetry: simplicity (ex: the grass) VS complexity (the metaphors)
Is it banal?
Especially where?
Orality?
Not a banal choice.
In prosody.
Yes. A lot of slang/ speech. Oratory in his poems so poetry is not rhetorical as politician’s speeches. Orality= a way of freedom.
Poetry and representation ?
What’s the issue?
Should be representative of the entirety of the humanity, democracy and universal representation.
Representation of people is not perfectly right: UTOPIANISM (civil war, slavery). These ideas do not represent the reality of America at this time.
Poetry as what…?
As a physical activity: the whole body needs to be account= the body and not just the intellectual activity.
