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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Paul Fussell. 5 Free Verse The main nineteenth- and twentieth - century depar- ture from traditional systems of metrical regularity deserves a chapter by itself . The first problem is the very term free verse . If we are persuaded with ...
Paul Fussell. 5 Free Verse The main nineteenth- and twentieth - century depar- ture from traditional systems of metrical regularity deserves a chapter by itself . The first problem is the very term free verse . If we are persuaded with ...
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... scanner of a standard metrical line . Other traditions of free verse work to determine the conduct and often the theme of the whole poem . As Theodore Roethke observes , the technique of enumeration or catalog has been Free Verse 77.
... scanner of a standard metrical line . Other traditions of free verse work to determine the conduct and often the theme of the whole poem . As Theodore Roethke observes , the technique of enumeration or catalog has been Free Verse 77.
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Paul Fussell. In a similar way , the free - verse technique of Whitman's Song of Myself seems virtually to determine that the theme of the poem will be " freedom " and flux as distinguished from the en- closing " houses and rooms " of ...
Paul Fussell. In a similar way , the free - verse technique of Whitman's Song of Myself seems virtually to determine that the theme of the poem will be " freedom " and flux as distinguished from the en- closing " houses and rooms " of ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 17 |
Metrical Variations | 30 |
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