Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 19 AIL 1813 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Plainness as a Modern Manner
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The idea
Where a Renaissance poem elaborates and an eighteenth-century poem balances, much modern verse repeats a few ordinary words. Unit eighteen's Advertisement had argued for ordinary language a century earlier; this is where that argument arrives at its conclusion.
In practice
A few ordinary words, repeated.
Where people slip
The Advertisement's argument, concluded.
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