ENGL 345 Lecture Notes - Caesura, Performance Poetry, Concrete Poetry
5 Dec 2012
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The use of a formula of words spoken or chanted to produce a magical effect. Repetition: common techniques include repetition of a final word or phrase. Context can be important, and this type of poetry is meant ot be performed orally, so there are limitations to what you can depict using the written word. A lot of the couplets have 7 syllables instead of 8, which leaves a sense of incompletion. The effect would have been different in shakespeare"s time because we don"t believe in withcraft anymore. Made for kids where all they had to do is some up with something that rhymes, and they can be magic too. Two other affective forms of poetry: blues = resilience and physical love; elegy = mode, not a genre. seems to bring the audience along with; fugue = repetition, brings you back and drives you through the poem.
