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word in those two lines of poetry.
Now, I think I remember this because people always
wondered what McLuhan—who was this great,
sort of guru of the electronic age and a theorist
about television—was doing as an English
professor. Basically, McLuhan started out as an
English professor, being very impressed with the
New Criticism and the kind of analysis of language
and poetry that was characteristic of the new
criticism and when he came to study media, media
of communications and even really anything,
whether from clothes to automobiles, he was
trying to apply the same analysis to technology