Sound and Form in Modern Poetry1964 |
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... poetry , call us to his poetic devices and his craftsmanship . Everything that art can accomplish for poetry is lovingly bestowed on Ransom's verse . But like all theorizing poets , his poetry goes beyond anything his theory can account ...
... poetry , call us to his poetic devices and his craftsmanship . Everything that art can accomplish for poetry is lovingly bestowed on Ransom's verse . But like all theorizing poets , his poetry goes beyond anything his theory can account ...
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... poetry . Hulme talks of poetry as if it were a spatial and not a temporal art . This confusion about the basic material of poetry - language , which is organized sound moving in time— dismisses prosody as of no central importance in poetic ...
... poetry . Hulme talks of poetry as if it were a spatial and not a temporal art . This confusion about the basic material of poetry - language , which is organized sound moving in time— dismisses prosody as of no central importance in poetic ...
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... poetry . But these orders were in fact destructive elements . Without the support of close syntax and with only the very weak support of vers libre , Imagist poetry relied more and more on visual effects . Imagist theory , in the ...
... poetry . But these orders were in fact destructive elements . Without the support of close syntax and with only the very weak support of vers libre , Imagist poetry relied more and more on visual effects . Imagist theory , in the ...
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Quantitative and Syllabic Meters | 2 |
Prosodic Analysis | 37 |
NineteenthCentury Precursors | 80 |
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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