Re: Semester 2 Chatter Thread
Malfoy said:
Ameh, can you please fill me in on today's ENGL1015 lecture (as well as tomorrow's?). I had a 9 til 5 day without a break and ENGL1015 was what got sacrificed in order for me to pop off to get lunch somewhere.
Sure. Today the lecturer detailed:
Walt Whitman's contextual background i.e. His start as a charismatic leftist Long Islander, travel within MA and back again. (Twas a cultured man, and immersed himself in literature)
popularity of 'Leaves of Grass' reflected in its first publication - 800 novels, prior to this Whitman published pieces of Temperance
the form of Leaves of Grass - Poetry as the prosaic form, i.e. Prose ---- Poetry
Umm what else, Yes - The lecturer added a few Emerson quotes on ppt. (You'll find it on WebCT) and basically went on about how Whitman imbibed Emersons challenge (Won't make sense until you read the slides btw)
On the second or third page the lecturer scanned was a sketch of a carpenter, fairly laid back (Again, you need to check webCT or get a copy of LOG to make sense of this drivel) and possibly in monochrome. Here, youcan draw a contrast between the manual labour of constructing a house and the art of writing (skilled) where both converge at the point of aesthetics and at times, practicality. (not sure ifI agree, but anyway)
The figurative significance of LOG's title - puns on ''leaves of a tree, and of a book''
Mentioned something about conversation routinelyimplied in text as a sexual encounter, also the text runs at a conversational ease, Whitman's verse is unrhymed.
Erm....That's all I can remember from the top of my head. I'll get back to you w. Lecture 4 next Tuesday during Renaissance. (Whenever I see you next)
