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[karenor]

you know whats been happening to me? it happens all the time, just its really recognizable now that i have all these papers all at once. it's very frustrating. but i like write major parts of my papers in my head, on the brink of sleep, or actually in my dreams. like i'm brilliant within the realm of sleep. and it isn't a dream perception that what i'm doing makes sense, IT DOES. it's like i access a part of my brain that for some reason, while i'm awake resists me bitterly. sometimes i can remember little bits and use them in my papers. mostly i forget almost entirely and then feel mad, cuz i've been working my brain double time and have half as much to show for it. i had my whole intro to my king horn paper worked out, and now i'm struggling.

here's a question. what precisely would you take style to mean in this prompt?: How does the style of King Horn help to convey the poem’s theme or themes?

now, if this were say a journal entry, i could say a bit about rhyme and meter, and be done with it. but this is a 4000 word essay. so i think i'm gonna take the liberty and actually use the configuration of events (i.e. symmetry, repitition, that sort of thing) under the heading of 'style'. is that retarded? am i gonna fail? cuz otherwise, how can i tie it to THEME? erg.

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[alannahrose.livejournal.com]

so i think i'm gonna take the liberty and actually use the configuration of events (i.e. symmetry, repitition, that sort of thing) under the heading of 'style'.

Granted, I don't know much about what context this is in or what 'style' has meant in the past with this sort of writing, but I'd say that what you said above would apply. I was also thinking "style" like the layout of the poem, but I can't see it so that is just something that came to mind.

Ugh, I feel your pain. I hope you make it through this!

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[karenor.livejournal.com]

thanks! i hope so too. it's not looking so good though.

for a contemporary poem, it's layout would definitely be considered part of the style. but in pieces as old as this, what we see in a textbook is generally not representative of what the manuscript looks like. a lot of the time, they just wrote from margin to margin, and relied on rhythm or rhyme to mark line breaks... i'm not sure with this one, but in any case i can't really use that...

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[alannahrose.livejournal.com]

Ah, see, there you go...I don't know what I'm talking about!