01-31-2016, 02:43 AM
Sorry about the slight threadjack, but since we are discussing those poems specifically:
I read both poems. Leanne, yer note was especially helpful, although it did get it independently of it rather easily after about four lines Weeded's point (that is, "Without a license a right to touch /The sin their touching incites"; the lynch justice is there very clearly throughout (and I hope my rightness in reading their sin as specifically homosexuality), but the whole racial thing didn't really affect me, not even unto the last line -- I know that's my culture speaking, my country never having experienced that specific sort of civil war), but I do think I might eventually have to copy your note on the importance (and oh, what vividness!) of "I saw I dreamt". And, only because (and even with the somewhat detracting reference to the river) of its more, er, universal (or at least less social) theme, I much prefer "Today" -- and because of all this, I might just binge through this guy's stuff later. Might. I might forget -- I think I'm still a bit tipsy from (haha!) real alcohol.
Okay, actual answer, but brief: a bit confused about the question. What do you mean by the title? Are you asking about the poem's specific style (which could be given a thousand different names, depending on your parameters -- or maybe not, but that's one thing I got reading about literary criticism), or merely an interpretation (of the part specifically, of the poem as a whole) and how it all, er, works (which, I guess is its "style", though it's both more ("style" being typically equal to, say, "genre" or "set of grammar rules" or "main forceful bit" or something) and less (being too specific, as it is, er, interpretation of how the parts work, and not necessarily of how the parts, well, are, in terms of what they're saying, and in the bigger picture (the author's life, the poem's circumstances, whether Shakespeare is alive or not, etc) what they, er, are), which should have been answered enough by Leanne for you to get into the thing? Catch my drift?
But, yeah, my answer, well, I'll just say Contemporary, and not bother defining what I mean by that. xP
Also, this is not brief at all, at least not for me. Lol.
I read both poems. Leanne, yer note was especially helpful, although it did get it independently of it rather easily after about four lines Weeded's point (that is, "Without a license a right to touch /The sin their touching incites"; the lynch justice is there very clearly throughout (and I hope my rightness in reading their sin as specifically homosexuality), but the whole racial thing didn't really affect me, not even unto the last line -- I know that's my culture speaking, my country never having experienced that specific sort of civil war), but I do think I might eventually have to copy your note on the importance (and oh, what vividness!) of "I saw I dreamt". And, only because (and even with the somewhat detracting reference to the river) of its more, er, universal (or at least less social) theme, I much prefer "Today" -- and because of all this, I might just binge through this guy's stuff later. Might. I might forget -- I think I'm still a bit tipsy from (haha!) real alcohol.
Okay, actual answer, but brief: a bit confused about the question. What do you mean by the title? Are you asking about the poem's specific style (which could be given a thousand different names, depending on your parameters -- or maybe not, but that's one thing I got reading about literary criticism), or merely an interpretation (of the part specifically, of the poem as a whole) and how it all, er, works (which, I guess is its "style", though it's both more ("style" being typically equal to, say, "genre" or "set of grammar rules" or "main forceful bit" or something) and less (being too specific, as it is, er, interpretation of how the parts work, and not necessarily of how the parts, well, are, in terms of what they're saying, and in the bigger picture (the author's life, the poem's circumstances, whether Shakespeare is alive or not, etc) what they, er, are), which should have been answered enough by Leanne for you to get into the thing? Catch my drift?
But, yeah, my answer, well, I'll just say Contemporary, and not bother defining what I mean by that. xP
Also, this is not brief at all, at least not for me. Lol.