Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 17 AIL 1608 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Working Against the Convention
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The idea
Because the habits were so well known, poets could get effects by breaking them. A sonnet that denies its beloved is like the sun is answering a tradition the reader is expected to hold. Knowing the convention is what lets a candidate see the departure.
In practice
The departure needs the convention.
Where people slip
A denial is answering something.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
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