Fly through a poem as it scrolls towards you, moving as the poem moves you. What's the tone - light or dark, head or heart? Reading here is feeling.
Two flights, two questions. First flight: steer towards BRIGHT as the poem lifts you, towards DARK as it turns cold, and drop a flare on any line you're unsure of. Second flight: HEAD where the poem is telling you things, HEART where it is feeling them. Then read your flightpath line by line against a critic's (where you began, where you ended, where the poem turned) and argue the differences back to the words. Choose from four poems: William Blake, 'The Sick Rose' · Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnet 43 · Lord Byron, 'She Walks in Beauty' · William Wordsworth, 'A Complaint'.
Affect - the emotional intensity a poem stirs in its reader, as opposed to its intellectual meaning. An affectonaut is a voyager through affect (from affect + Greek nautēs, a sailor). Every move is a chance to argue, reflect, and re-read.
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