Poetic Meter and Poetic Form"This book might be required reading for all students of poetry because it makes wonderfully clear the relationship of metrics to the formal achievement of meaning ... Fussell's command of his subject and his never-failing common sense will guarantee ... enrichment for anyone who takes the time to read this book."--Frank Lentricchia, Jr., PoetryDonated by Prabu Vasan. |
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Page 81
... enjambed free verse which has become a common style in the last twenty years or so as a vehicle for themes that are sly or shy , or uncertain , or quietly ironic , or furtive . W. C. Williams , Frank O'Hara , Robert Bly , Robert Creeley ...
... enjambed free verse which has become a common style in the last twenty years or so as a vehicle for themes that are sly or shy , or uncertain , or quietly ironic , or furtive . W. C. Williams , Frank O'Hara , Robert Bly , Robert Creeley ...
Page 83
... enjambed lines , vary- ing in length from one to fifteen syllables . The rhythm sounds like that of well - written prose . But the repetitions we expect in free verse are here , and they involve words implying the relation of verse ...
... enjambed lines , vary- ing in length from one to fifteen syllables . The rhythm sounds like that of well - written prose . But the repetitions we expect in free verse are here , and they involve words implying the relation of verse ...
Page 89
... enjambment must refract the rhetorical status of the poem's address . And any momentary deviation into meter must validate itself , must appear not a lapse but a significant bold stroke . For the reader to attend to things like these ...
... enjambment must refract the rhetorical status of the poem's address . And any momentary deviation into meter must validate itself , must appear not a lapse but a significant bold stroke . For the reader to attend to things like these ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 17 |
Metrical Variations | 30 |
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