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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... patterns of conceit , into symbols , into epic similes . A poet's rehearsal of ideas may become his or her theme , and ... pattern , we have anaphora ; when a scheme of whole lines returns , we may have the refrain of a villanelle or a ...
... patterns of conceit , into symbols , into epic similes . A poet's rehearsal of ideas may become his or her theme , and ... pattern , we have anaphora ; when a scheme of whole lines returns , we may have the refrain of a villanelle or a ...
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... pattern of rhymes or repetitions may hold itself longer in the memory . The recurrent sounds of poetry embody the music of the language itself . The final stanzas of Roethke's " The Waking " enact the fascination as well as the ...
... pattern of rhymes or repetitions may hold itself longer in the memory . The recurrent sounds of poetry embody the music of the language itself . The final stanzas of Roethke's " The Waking " enact the fascination as well as the ...
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... pattern . It is , to be more precise , the abstract method by which we measure those regular , real patterns of rhythm . Meter's Greek origin is , after all , metron : a thing by which to measure . Meter is one fundamental tool for ...
... pattern . It is , to be more precise , the abstract method by which we measure those regular , real patterns of rhythm . Meter's Greek origin is , after all , metron : a thing by which to measure . Meter is one fundamental tool for ...
Página xv
... pattern , in scansion , but also predict what rhythmic pattern will follow — hence his agreement that syllabics is not a meter . John Frederick Nims holds that meter is a viable denotation not just at the level of the poem , or the line ...
... pattern , in scansion , but also predict what rhythmic pattern will follow — hence his agreement that syllabics is not a meter . John Frederick Nims holds that meter is a viable denotation not just at the level of the poem , or the line ...
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... pattern . Divergences that are conventional are felt as regularities . Reading unmetered verse , by contrast , we are not aware of any fixed or predictable underlying pattern . In free verse , there will of course be natural patterns ...
... pattern . Divergences that are conventional are felt as regularities . Reading unmetered verse , by contrast , we are not aware of any fixed or predictable underlying pattern . In free verse , there will of course be natural patterns ...
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
Pasajes populares
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.