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 102
... technical prob- lem for the poet is how to manage the transition from the one atmosphere to the other , and , furthermore , how to enlist the reader's fullest participation in this crucial transition . Frost solves this technical ...
... technical prob- lem for the poet is how to manage the transition from the one atmosphere to the other , and , furthermore , how to enlist the reader's fullest participation in this crucial transition . Frost solves this technical ...
Page 104
... technical arcana of syllables and sounds and syntax and metaphor as well as toward the animated actualities of human nature and human expectation . The knowl- edge of the way the reader will react when a technical something is done to ...
... technical arcana of syllables and sounds and syntax and metaphor as well as toward the animated actualities of human nature and human expectation . The knowl- edge of the way the reader will react when a technical something is done to ...
Page 174
... technical cinematic conventions so well that it would be puzzled if asked to articulate them and would reject attempts to alter them . The audience's acceptance of a rapid series of static , still pictures as an illusion of sequential ...
... technical cinematic conventions so well that it would be puzzled if asked to articulate them and would reject attempts to alter them . The audience's acceptance of a rapid series of static , still pictures as an illusion of sequential ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 17 |
Metrical Variations | 30 |
Copyright | |
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accentual accentual-syllabic anapestic beginning blank verse caesura CALIFORNIA/SANTA CRUZ century classical conventions Copyright critical CRUZ The University device effect elements emotional emphasis English poetry enjambment Essay example experience expressive Faber feet fixed forms foot formal free verse free-verse poem Frost heroic couplet iambic pentameter illusion imply initial trochee kind language logical meter metrical variations metrist modern musical nature number of syllables octave Old English organization pattern perhaps permission Petrarchan sonnet poet poet's Pope principle prose prosodic pyrrhic quatrain reader regularity reinforce rhetorical rhyme scheme rhythmical SANTA CRUZ scansion seems sense sestet shape Song spondaic spondaic substitution spondee sprung rhythm stanza stanzaic form stichic stressed syllables strophic structure suggest technical technique tends tercet terminal trochee tetrameter couplets texture thing Thom Gunn thou tion traditional trochaic trochaic substitution trochee turn University Library UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA/SANTA unstressed versification W. H. Auden white space Whitman's William words Yeats