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This Wound is a World by Billy Ray Belcourt is a new poetry anthology. Because its so new, this is a great resource that may not be available elsewhere! Use it to study and understand concepts for ENGL 253.02 at University of Calgary.

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Billy-Ray Belcourt

 2016 Rhodes Scholar
 UBC Assistant Prof in Indigenous Creative Writing
 2 poetry and 1 essay books
 “manifesto” (enraged, provocative) tone from the book

Tone: mood, feeling, atmosphere, overall effect of a poem

Elegy: a formal poem of lament usually mourning the death of an individual

Lyric: a relatively brief poem featuring a single speaker expressing thoughts/feelings

 Many forms: sonnet, ode, free verse
 In ancient Greece, lyric poems were sung to the accompaniment of a lyre
 Dominant form since Romantic period

Ode: lyric poem celebrating and often addressed to a person, thing or abstraction

 Elevated, serious tone
 3 forms
o Pindaric ode: original Greek ode, rare in English
o Horatian ode: more personal tone
o Cowleyan ode: irregular

Apostrophe: an address to an absent person, thing or abstract idea

Metonymy: figure of speech in which a word stands for an object/concept its related to

 EX: crown is a metonymy for the monarchy

Synecdoche: category of metonym where a part stands for the whole

 EX: hand is a synecdoche for worker

Negative Capability

 Introduced by Romantic poet John Keats in a letter to his brothers in 1817
 State in which one is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, w/o any irritable
reaching after fact/reason
 Puzzlement and pleasure together – the way to enjoy poetry

Free Verse

 Majority of contemporary and modern poetry
 No fixed meter or rhyme scheme
 Sound & rhythm is of prime importance
 Patterns appear, but they are unique/organic to the poem, not pre-determined

Prose Poem

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