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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A spoken syllable manifests at least four phonetic qualities : pitch ( highness or
lowness on the musical scale ) ... that the line To me the meanest flower that
blows can give consists of alternating “ accented ” and “ unaccented ” syllables .
A spoken syllable manifests at least four phonetic qualities : pitch ( highness or
lowness on the musical scale ) ... that the line To me the meanest flower that
blows can give consists of alternating “ accented ” and “ unaccented ” syllables .
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If accentual meters like Yeats ' s and Auden ' s are regarded as “ loose iambic , ”
we can begin to invoke the term " strict iambic " as the number of both accents
and syllables becomes regularized - that is , as the accentual moves toward the ...
If accentual meters like Yeats ' s and Auden ' s are regarded as “ loose iambic , ”
we can begin to invoke the term " strict iambic " as the number of both accents
and syllables becomes regularized - that is , as the accentual moves toward the ...
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In graphic scansion , which is the kind we shall be using , the reader affixes the
symbol to syllables which , in their context , are unstressed ; he uses the symbol ,
to indicate syllables which , in context , are stressed . A division between poetic ...
In graphic scansion , which is the kind we shall be using , the reader affixes the
symbol to syllables which , in their context , are unstressed ; he uses the symbol ,
to indicate syllables which , in context , are stressed . A division between poetic ...
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User Review - rooze - LibraryThingThis is, indeed, an authoritative guide to meter and form. However, Fussell's arrogance had me running to other equally authoritative yet substantially less elitist sources. Try Mary Oliver's Rules of the Dance or Stephen Fry's The Ode Less Travelled instead. Read full review
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User Review - michaelm42071 - LibraryThingThis is not the first book to read on the subject of how form assists meaning in poetry; for that I would go back to John Ciardi’s How Does a Poem Mean? But Fussell’s book is a good, succinct one for ... Read full review
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 17 |
Metrical Variations | 30 |
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accentual according action actual appears associated become beginning caesura called century classical closely common Consider conventions couplet critical CRUZ device effect elements English example expect experience expressive feel feet final fixed foot force formal four free verse hand heroic iambic illusion imply important initial kind language largely length less logical look matter meaning meter metrical musical nature never occur once organization pattern pentameter perhaps permission Petrarchan poem poet poetic poetry position possible practice principle prose prosodic quatrain reader reason regularity reinforce rhetorical rhyme rhythm rhythmical scansion seems sense shape short similar Song sonnet sort sound speak spondaic spondee stanza stanzaic stress structure substitution suggest syllables technical technique tends term tetrameter thing third tion traditional trochaic trochee turn UNIVERSITY variations varied weight Whitman's writing written
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| Title | Poetic Meter and Poetic Form |
| Authors | Paul Fussell, Donald T Regan Chair of English Literature Paul Fussell |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Random House, 1979 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 7 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0394321200, 9780394321202 |
| Length | 188 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Criticism / Reference |
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