Poetry & Pedagogy

from Reading Affect in the Lyric, Charles Altieri

- to ask : “who the texts ask us to become if we participate in their particular ways of fusing sensation and imagination” (46)

- “Writing does not comment about what one is feeling, but makes articulate the actual event fo feeling as it takes place, or makes a place for itself” (55)

“writing (is) the locus of affective events.”

“The reader’s task is to find out where feelings lead and to test… what transitions their articulation makes possible” (56)

something happened. what happened?

“teaching poetry in this new world requires fresh attention to how intricately affects are woven into modes of attention (61).

phenomenology of the textual encounter.