Virtual EMS

Event Description: By Jane Hedley, Professor of English. In a poem, someone is speaking to someone else. What motivates the effort this speaker is making to reach out towards a significant other? Are we the "you" in question? If not - if the "you" being addressed is "Daddy" or the speaker's baby daughter or a Grecian urn - where does that leave us? How poets go about to construct an act of communication that involves and interests us, even if we are not its designated interlocutor, is the focus of Professor Hedley's recently published book. We'll look together at some poems that construct an interesting or problematic "I-you" relation.