Sound and Form in Modern Poetry1964 |
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Page 101
... images should exhaust one . Regular metre to this impressionist poetry is cramping , jangling , meaningless , and out of place . Into the delicate pattern of images and colour it introduces the heavy , crude pattern of rhetorical verse ...
... images should exhaust one . Regular metre to this impressionist poetry is cramping , jangling , meaningless , and out of place . Into the delicate pattern of images and colour it introduces the heavy , crude pattern of rhetorical verse ...
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... images and strong ideas functioning with a minimum of syntax . Ideas and images can achieve a structure of sorts through mere juxtaposition : In a Station of the Metro The apparition of these faces in the crowd ; Petals on a wet , black ...
... images and strong ideas functioning with a minimum of syntax . Ideas and images can achieve a structure of sorts through mere juxtaposition : In a Station of the Metro The apparition of these faces in the crowd ; Petals on a wet , black ...
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... images ; there are no significant pauses loaded with surging emotional content . To represent Thomas by one of his earlier , image - clotted sonnets does him an injury . His best work lies in those spacious stanzas where the long ...
... images ; there are no significant pauses loaded with surging emotional content . To represent Thomas by one of his earlier , image - clotted sonnets does him an injury . His best work lies in those spacious stanzas where the long ...
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