Blog #1: S&S Ch. 1

Reviewing Chapter One

Ordinary language does not say more and says it more intensely as poetic language does.
The uses of language:
Information: most common use of language, it helps us with the ordinary business of living.
Experience: this exists to bring us a sense and a perception of life, to widen and sharpen our contacts with existence.
Persuasion: is used in advertisements, sermons, and political speeches to convince audience to support a certain argument.

Looking for moral instruction and beauty may be limiting approaches because if you do what is morally correct to the world, and write about what the world think beauty is, you deny yourself the chance to find out what your personal opinion on those subjects are.

Distinctions between poetry and other imaginative literature are that poetry is the most condensed and concentrated form of literature.
Four dimensions of experience that poetry involves:
Metaphor: comparing two things with “like” or “as”
Irony: when you get something opposite of what’s expected
Sound repetition: Beginning letters, endings in words, create rhythm/pattern
Allusion: Mirrors ideas from different work of literature

“The Last Night that She Lived” portrays all the things exemplified in the chapter because the language isn’t dry, or scarce, the writing has more behind what’s read, and the poem causes feelings with the story.