Sound and Form in Modern Poetry1964 |
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Page 186
... Land assimilates every prosodic advance Eliot made in his earlier verse ; it also points toward newer methods , especially the strong - stress techniques of Four Quartets and the plays . Be- cause of its length , The Waste Land raises ...
... Land assimilates every prosodic advance Eliot made in his earlier verse ; it also points toward newer methods , especially the strong - stress techniques of Four Quartets and the plays . Be- cause of its length , The Waste Land raises ...
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... Land . The prosody tightens once again into blank verse as we hear the prophet's voice in three lines of ringing anaphora : After the torchlight red on sweaty faces After the frosty silence in the gardens After the agony in stony places ...
... Land . The prosody tightens once again into blank verse as we hear the prophet's voice in three lines of ringing anaphora : After the torchlight red on sweaty faces After the frosty silence in the gardens After the agony in stony places ...
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... Land , 187-192 Crane maintains a steady iambic beat ; the lines are clinched with resonant rhymes . Crane's language intends to express something of Waste Land - ish hopelessness and horror , of the desolate land- scapes behind the ...
... Land , 187-192 Crane maintains a steady iambic beat ; the lines are clinched with resonant rhymes . Crane's language intends to express something of Waste Land - ish hopelessness and horror , of the desolate land- scapes behind the ...
Contents
In the Dark Wood | 3 |
Prosody as Rhythmic Cognition | 24 |
Modern Poetry in the Metrical | 42 |
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accents aesthetic alliteration anapests Auden blank verse Bridges cadence caesura Cantos couplet Crane critical dactyls echoes effect emotion Essays Ezra Pound falling rhythm feeling feet Four Quartets four-stress line free verse Gerontion grammar hear hexameter Hopkins iambic pentameter iambs Ibid images Imagist language last line light Lowell Lowell's lyric meaning metrical stress modern poetry monosyllabic move movement never night opening passage pattern pause period style poem poem's poet poet's poetic prose prosodic style Ransom regular rhetorical stresses rhyme rhythmic structure Roethke Roethke's scan scansion sense sestina sing song sound speech spring sprung rhythm stanza Stevens strong-stress meter Sweeney syllable-stress meter syllables symbolic syntactical syntax T. S. Eliot technique tetrameter texture theme thing Thomas tion traditional trimeter trisyllabic trochaic trochee turn vers libre versification visual voice vowel Waste Land Websterian Whitman wind words Yeats York Yvor Winters