Notes about literature and Poetry 20/09/2010  - 21/09/2010

During  the previous lessons, we studied the steps to follow to read a text and we tried to make sense (capire il senso) of what makes language a literary language.

We made the sense of the text, while reading it.

The role of a reader is an active, dynamic one in that (nel senso che) he contributes to make the meaning of the text.

The poet is conscious that the reader is an active collaborator during the making of the meaning.

There are so many meanings as the number of the readers, provided that (a patto che) the reader can support his interpretation on the text    

Implicit meanings are to be inferred (inferiti)

What you read in a poem is fiction, not truth. There's nothing outside the text, there's only interpretation.

The meaning of a word, changes according to the context.

La letteratura è un mondo analogo

The subject you have to be used in poetry is THE READER (es The reader can see that...

                                                                                                                                  generally doesn't imagine that...

An informational text is about the static reality, because you can't change it. A literary text is about a dynamic reality.

Literature studies how what is said relates to the way it is said (to produce connotation and emotionally facts)

An ALLITERATION is the repetition of the same consonant sound in two words es BROWN / BREAD

Studying literary texts, especially poetry, means to pay close attention to the way words have been:

chosen

organized into chunks

punctuated

arranged into units

Unstressed/stressed = iambic rhythm

Stressed/unstressed = trochaic rhythm

Literary texts:

play (tragedy, comedy), fiction, poem

Does the poem draw attention to itself? Yes, it draws the reader attention on its layout

In English, rhythm depends on the alternation of stressed and unstressed syllable

TEXT

CO-TEXT the words near the portion of text I'm studying

CONTEXT the background of the text (ex. information about the poet/poetess)

VOCABULARY

to tackle with= darsi da fare per

to make sense of= capire il senso di...

evidence= prove pl. (a piece of evidence)

thus= così in letteratura

to await= aspettare (business language)

to invite reflections= stimolare la riflessione

to  have a purpose= avere uno scopo

to aim= avere lo scopo di...

workaims=  finalità di lavoro

to exist within= esistere all interno di...

arbiter=arbitro in letteratura -> referee= arbitro in ambito calcistico

to require/to ask for= chiedere

enjambement = run-on line

verse= insieme di versi

pattern= modello -> the pattern of the sonnet is made up of 14 lines

tramp= senza tetto

poetry= uncountable noun

poem= poesia come componimento poetico

poetical= poetico

on the whole= nel complesso

COSTRUZIONI PARTICOLARI

to select something from something

to support an interpretation with...

to expect somebody to do something

to wait for something

es I expect this poem to deal with / to be about literature that is (cioè) the poem is a metapoem (poesia che parla di poesia)

to care for somebody= prendersi cura di qualcuno

to be arranged/organized into...

as for example...

the shape of the poem is...

REGOLE

Il suffisso less serve a negare quello c'è prima es timeless endless

SERIES= significato singolare

the+aggettivo= aggettivo sostantivato

i composti di no richiedono il verbo alla forma affermativa