English 1022E Lecture Notes - William Carlos Williams, H.D., Blank Verse
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Also known as open form verse: different than milton s blank verse in paradise lost. But differs from traditional verse by the fact that its rhythmic pattern is not organized into meter. Focus on the visual pattern of the printed poem. Genteel poetry was the dominant, proper form of poetry around this time, uncontroversial, elegant, short, inoffensive, shitty. It comes from the writer s not realizing that the natural object is always the adequate symbol. Famous poem of the era is ezra pound s in a station of the metro .