Poetry: Premeditated Art |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 79
Page 4
... language in rhythm and rhyme ( " Ba - ba , ma - ma , pa - pa " ) , but the most primitive societies have used verse to preserve their words . As soon as the grunts and wails of bestial expression and com- munication take on the ...
... language in rhythm and rhyme ( " Ba - ba , ma - ma , pa - pa " ) , but the most primitive societies have used verse to preserve their words . As soon as the grunts and wails of bestial expression and com- munication take on the ...
Page 53
... language of Empson's poem is " neutral " in the sense that it does not seek to astonish or have sensual impact . " Corpses " and “ rape ” seem in this context to be printed in red ; “ border ” and " picture " faintly stir our capacity ...
... language of Empson's poem is " neutral " in the sense that it does not seek to astonish or have sensual impact . " Corpses " and “ rape ” seem in this context to be printed in red ; “ border ” and " picture " faintly stir our capacity ...
Page 117
... language . English had a unique need of blank verse . Classical poetry had been unrhymed , and the development of rhyme in the Middle Ages had largely been in Romance languages ( and Latin ) where rhymes were numerous . Naturally , as ...
... language . English had a unique need of blank verse . Classical poetry had been unrhymed , and the development of rhyme in the Middle Ages had largely been in Romance languages ( and Latin ) where rhymes were numerous . Naturally , as ...
Contents
poetry and use | 11 |
poetry and truth | 20 |
Questions for Study | 34 |
Copyright | |
41 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
accents anapests beat beauty bird blank verse break breath caesura called Chromis couplet dark dead death DOLLABELLA DOTO dramatic dream Dylan Thomas DYNAMENE Eliot English enjambment experience eyes feel feet free verse Frost Ginsberg hand hear heart iambic iambic pentameter iambs imagery imagination language light look lyric madam meaning meter metrical Milton mind moon never night passage pattern pentameter phrase play poem poet poetic poetry prose Prufrock quatrain reader REFERENCES rhyme rhythm Richard Wilbur Robert Robert Lowell scansion seems sense Shakespeare Silas sing song sonnet soul sound speak speech spondee stanza stress strophe suggests sweet syllables symbolic T. S. Eliot TEGEUS tell thee things thou thought tion tradition trochee truth turn verse paragraphs Virilius voice W. D. Snodgrass Warren wind words writing