Daddy

To return to our two-sided focus of poetry and psychoanalysis, all hours looked at a close reading of "Daddy," which highlighted that regressive tendency and the Electra complex of the speaker, the "oo" sound impact and how its sporadic usage impact the childlike persona of the speaker's memories, the big 3 conceits with those feet (synecdoche), those Nazis, and those supernatural vampires, the meandering enjambment, and the trauma of the real occurring from all of this! s hour still needs to finish up this one, but I think you may have noticed all the content pulled from this poem that you may not have been able to do three months ago. We will be working with King Lear 1.1 in detail (fourth hour started the process with everyone's "father of the year" Gloucester and his retelling of his "*****son's" conception). After looking at this opening, it will be about Lear, his daughters, Kent (anyone else see him as the son that Lear never had?), the very sparse rhyming and who has that honor, caesura, enjambment, broken iambic pentameter, forced rhyme, and all those other literary elements hiding within the prose and poetic lines. Make sure you have read 1.2 as well - did you figure out Edmund's favorite letter/sound yet?