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Michael Juster 08-11-2017 07:03 AM

Cleanth Brooks on Metaphor in Alexander Pope
 
"One notices that even the metaphors by which Pope characterizes Belinda are not casual bits of decoration, used for a moment, and then forgotten. They run throughout the poem as if they were motifs."--Cleanth Brooks on "The Rape of the Lock" at p. 85 of ""The Well-Wrought Urn."

RCL 08-11-2017 06:50 PM

Brooks is my favorite close-reader (New Critic) and I'm especially happy with his reading of Keats. On Pope, if I recall correctly, there's something about the motifs of the sun and sylphs. Good question for students of Pope!

Michael Juster 08-12-2017 07:41 PM

I usually use Alicia's willow poem to talk about these issues with students.


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