Close reading of a poem

30 Outubro 2018, 08:00 Isabel Maria da Cunha Rosa Fernandes

Close reading of William Blake's "The Sick Rose".

The particular case of Blake's "composite art". Brief introduction to the artist's Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. The notion of iconotext.
Hyperbaton. The importance of suspense, ambiguity and connotation in the reading/s of the poem.