Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 19 AIL 1826 short lesson, about 20 seconds
A Traditional Form, Deliberately
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The idea
A poet writing in rhymed stanzas in nineteen twenty-two is choosing a form his contemporaries were abandoning. Unit eight's warning applies in reverse: an old form in a new decade is as deliberate as a new form in an old one.
In practice
The old form is the deliberate one here.
Where people slip
Unit eight's warning, reversed.
Your place on the trail
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