Here are a few questions to consider as you read, any one of which might crop up in our in-class response on Friday:
* How has poetics traditionally differed from rhetoric (to which it is related)? What makes poetics distinct?
* Why can we make the claim that all language is metaphorical in content, and even to speak of a metaphor is to use a metaphor?
* How can common place (or commonly used) metaphor structure the very way we think and act? Can language create our perception of life itself, in this sense?
* What are the four master tropes and how do they differ from one another? While all are metaphorical, how do they stress different ideas or aspects of a thing or concept?
* What role does audience play in distinguishing genres of poetry? What does it mean to have an 'audience' for a poem, which is traditionally a work printed in a book that anyone can read?
* Why is it crucial in poetry to "begin with a distinction between the voice that speaks and the poet who made the poem"? How does this relate to the idea of "poetry as an act"?
* Why is lyric poetry often based in hyperbole and hyperbolic constructions? What does this allow the poet--and his/her audience--to see and experience?
* What does Culler mean by the "foregrounding and making strange of language"? Why is this poetry's central function?
* What is the "objective correlative" and how might this relate to approaching/reading a poem as literature?
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