ENGB04H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Trochee, Polysemy, Assonance
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Symbolism (public, cultural, historical, religious, national, private, esoteric) Introduce to basic terms in rhythm: notice when the rhythm changes, when the poem departs in rhythm. In most metered poems there are consistent number of syllables in each line, and there is a consistent pattern of accented syllables: e. g. , (cid:862)nature(cid:859)s first gree(cid:374) is gold, /her hardest hue to hold. (cid:863) robert. Frost, (cid:862)nothing gold can tay(cid:863: e. g. , (cid:862)co(cid:373)e li(cid:448)e (cid:449)ith (cid:373)e a(cid:374)d (cid:271)e (cid:373)y love. Nothing gold can stay robert frost, circa 1920: https://rpo. library. utoronto. ca/poems/nothing-gold-can-stay. Iambic structure of poetry draws out an implicit rhythm or undertone of ordinary speech and emphasizes: there is a distinct rhythm in ordinary spoken speech vs. poetic meter. Iambic seems to be natural because it has been conventional for so long (cid:862)the tyger(cid:863) william blake, [1794]: https://www. poetryfoundation. org/poems/43687/the-tyger: tyger, tyger burning bright/in the forest of the night. He uses the tiger to say not to restrict god.
