For this blog post, please respond to the following two questions. In your post, please number your answers to correspond with the questions.
- In “Literature, Meaning, and Interpretation,” Culler discusses the relationship between language and meaning, how language produces meaning. What is one idea from this chapter that strikes you as interesting, important, or significant regarding the relationship between language and meaning? Why does this idea jump out at you?
- In Chapter 5 of Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction, Jonathan Culler discusses some of the ways poetry asks us to think about how language works. I would like you to consider the chapter from Culler’s book alongside your reading of the poems on the syllabus this week. Find one or two places in one of these poems and identify a rhetorical or poetic technique Culler describes in Chapter 5. Why does this technique jump out at you as being important or interesting? How does it help shape the meaning of the poem?
