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 95
It is undoubtedly largely for metrical reasons that we turn with disappointment if
not with loathing from Whitman ' s “ O Captain ! My Captain ! " , which , in its
inexpressive stressing , is worthy of no one so much as Longfellow : O Captain !
my ...
It is undoubtedly largely for metrical reasons that we turn with disappointment if
not with loathing from Whitman ' s “ O Captain ! My Captain ! " , which , in its
inexpressive stressing , is worthy of no one so much as Longfellow : O Captain !
my ...
Page 103
The reader has now been fully prepared to participate almost bodily with the
speaker in the " turn " : I have / bút tỏ / turn ăn / mỹ crm , / ằnd lỏ . / The medial
trochee constitutes the thematic center of the poem as well as the metrical pivot :
it ...
The reader has now been fully prepared to participate almost bodily with the
speaker in the " turn " : I have / bút tỏ / turn ăn / mỹ crm , / ằnd lỏ . / The medial
trochee constitutes the thematic center of the poem as well as the metrical pivot :
it ...
Page 121
The abstract shape looks like this : FIRST QUATRAIN } SECOND QUATRAIN
THIRD QUATRAIN TURN 8 } COUPLET COUPLET 8 The turn normally occurs at
the beginning of line 13 , although the force of the earlier Petrarchan convention
is ...
The abstract shape looks like this : FIRST QUATRAIN } SECOND QUATRAIN
THIRD QUATRAIN TURN 8 } COUPLET COUPLET 8 The turn normally occurs at
the beginning of line 13 , although the force of the earlier Petrarchan convention
is ...
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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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| 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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