English 2230F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Conceit, Internal Rhyme, Jamb

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 2230F/G
• Professor: Allan Pero

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Mea(cid:374)s literall(cid:455) (cid:862)a pla(cid:272)e to sta(cid:374)d(cid:863) or (cid:862)a stoppi(cid:374)g pla(cid:272)e(cid:863: a(cid:272)tuall(cid:455) (cid:272)o(cid:373)es to (cid:373)ea(cid:374) (cid:862)roo(cid:373)(cid:863) A stanza produces a kind of room within the larger building we call the poem. The room is decorated and shaped by language. Each stanza separated by white spaces: they are time, stanzas marked with black leave white spaces; these spaces are time, we could call these pure time, time marked by silence. The stopping places, the walls: the stopping places at the end of each line. These rooms are filled with different kinds of energies and rhythms. Deri(cid:448)ed fro(cid:373) (cid:862)rh(cid:455)th(cid:373)(cid:863: (cid:862)rhuthmo (cid:863, mea(cid:374)s (cid:862)a (cid:373)easured flo(cid:449)(cid:863) Rhymes negotiate the rooms of each stanza. We make associations with the help of the rhyme. Rh(cid:455)(cid:373)e is (cid:862)i(cid:374)de(cid:454)i(cid:272)al(cid:863) > rh(cid:455)(cid:373)es i(cid:374)di(cid:272)ate: they indicate by calling attention to a particular argument or a moment in the argument which constitutes the poem.