Entry Five or Six: Walcott

Mar 10, 2007 12:01


I did a bit of venturing into the links on the course contents and I was blown away by the twelve steps for closely reading texts. A brush up on my literary lexicon was well needed. In English 160 we touched briefly on caesura but never got into polysyndeton , asyndeton, or anaphora.
I am going to start writing in polysyndeton and never end my ( Read more... )

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okblogeli March 20 2007, 23:16:44 UTC
"On to Walcott's Ruins of a Great House, he spends intertextual references like a millionaire"

That sounds like it could spill into a rap song. Think about it.

"I spend allusions like I'm the D. Trump
Throwing G's and Donnes till you all stumped
Like the Jungle Book I'll leave y'all hangin'
What Kipling said, that honkey's wankin'
If Milton's blind, I'll sucka punch him
And I'll reference Shakespeare, first name William
Gonna bust this house and dessecrate it
My rhyme's so ruined y'all gonna hate it"

(Now if that's not an in-depth and thoughtful comment, I don't know what is.)

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