Status Updates From Lyrical Ballads: 1798 and 1800

i hate poetry

done the 1798 edition!

we aren’t reading past this point in class and all the poems just repeat with edits for the second half so i won’t be reading the rest of this book (for now)

this book is actually so beautiful and its instilled in me an appreciation for poetry

loooove the poems in this section of the book

ngl understood very little of what was read

finished the rime of the ancyent marinere by coleridge

my favourite passage:
“Like one, that on a lonely road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turn’d round, walks on
And turns no more his head:
Because he knows, a frightful fiend
Doth close behind him tread.”

/ reading for engl 102

as i’m unfamiliar with poetry and for complex older language, it’s been a bit slow to get through and understand. but i’m excited to explore a new genre and learn more about analyzing literature !

The interest in minority characters telling their own story is reminiscent of Chaucer's use of changing perspectives. Reminds me more of a story of a people rather than the story of people.

Very interesting concept.

I quite like the idea of Coleridge and Wordsworth stating that this is a poetry experiment and that anyone who chooses to judge it by standards of past poets is essentially no fun. I'm rockin with that in Advertisement (pg 47)