Meter in English: A Critical EngagementDavid Baker University of Arkansas Press, 1996 M01 1 - 368 páginas Renowned poets and experts in metrics respond to Robert Wallace's pivotal essay, Meter in English, which clarifies and simplifies methods of studying poetry. |
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... Light takes the Tree ; but who can tell us how ? The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair ; I wake to sleep , and take my waking slow . Great Nature has another thing to do To you and me ; so take the lively air , And , lovely , learn ...
... Light takes the Tree ; but who can tell us how ? The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair ; I wake to sleep , and take my waking slow . Great Nature has another thing to do To you and me ; so take the lively air , And , lovely , learn ...
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... light travels 299,792,458 meters per second , a standard single meter is defined as the distance a beam of light will travel during 1 / 299,792,458 of a second . The specific entity of " a meter " is quite different in poetry . But this ...
... light travels 299,792,458 meters per second , a standard single meter is defined as the distance a beam of light will travel during 1 / 299,792,458 of a second . The specific entity of " a meter " is quite different in poetry . But this ...
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... light | is spent . By convention , following the terminology of classical prosody , this line is rationalized as pentameter ( " five - measure " ) , each unit of meas- ure being a " foot , " here specifically an iambic foot or iamb : an ...
... light | is spent . By convention , following the terminology of classical prosody , this line is rationalized as pentameter ( " five - measure " ) , each unit of meas- ure being a " foot , " here specifically an iambic foot or iamb : an ...
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... meter to point up a light stress on syllables that would be virtually unaccented in speech , as in ( 1 ) ~ ( 1 ) That on the ash | es of his youth | doth lie or by contriving a trochaic substitution to fit , as 6 ROBERT WALLACE.
... meter to point up a light stress on syllables that would be virtually unaccented in speech , as in ( 1 ) ~ ( 1 ) That on the ash | es of his youth | doth lie or by contriving a trochaic substitution to fit , as 6 ROBERT WALLACE.
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... light stresses on " on " and " of " in the line " That on the ashes of his youth doth lie . " Subtleties we may be unaware of in speech are thus magnified into perception . Conversely , the rigidity of meter ( an inch is an inch ) is ...
... light stresses on " on " and " of " in the line " That on the ashes of his youth doth lie . " Subtleties we may be unaware of in speech are thus magnified into perception . Conversely , the rigidity of meter ( an inch is an inch ) is ...
Contenido
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PART TWO | 43 |
A RESPONSE | 45 |
A DEFENSE OF THE NONIAMBIC METERS | 59 |
METERMAKING ARGUMENTS | 75 |
A RESPONSE TO ROBERT WALLACE | 97 |
SOME RESPONSES TO ROBERT WALLACE | 109 |
A NEW FOOTING | 125 |
VERSE VS PROSEPROSODY VS METER | 249 |
METRICS AND PEDAGOGICAL ECONOMY | 265 |
TWO LETTERS | 279 |
A RESPONSE TO ROBERT WALLACE | 283 |
PART THREE | 293 |
COMPLETING THE CIRCLE | 295 |
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CONTRIBUTORS | 357 |
METRICAL PLEASURES OF OUR TIME | 151 |
STRENGTH IN DIVERSITY | 169 |
METER AND THE FORTUNES OF THE NUMERICAL IMAGINATION | 197 |
STAUNCH METER GREAT SONG | 221 |
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Términos y frases comunes
accentual meter accentual verse accentual-syllabic meter accentual-syllabic verse amphibrach anacrusis anapestic Anapests and dactyls basis for meter caesura century conventional critical dactylic dactylic meters discussion double-iamb e-s ending English meter English verse example exist in English extra-syllable ending foot in English four-stress free verse Gioia Greek green thought hear iamb iambic line iambic meter iambic norm iambic pentameter iambic verse Jeffers Jespersen lables language levels of stress linguistic Marianne Moore measure meter in English metrical stress metrists Moore's Nims non-iambic meters number of syllables pattern poem poem's poetic poets Professor Wallace proposition prose prosodists pyrrhic foot quantity reader regular rhyme rhythm rhythmic Robert Wallace Robinson Jeffers Saintsbury scansion seems sense sound speech stress spondee stanza stressed and unstressed strong stresses syllabic meter syllabic verse syllable count syllables tetrameter Timothy Steele tion traditional trochaic trochaic meter trochee unstressed syllables variation versification words writing
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Página v - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.