ENGB04H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Caesura, English Poetry, Free Variables And Bound Variables
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A poet"s choice of meter is deliberate and so poets places his work in relation to all the rest of english poetry. Ex: dactylic hexameter has never been common in english, but poet using it, can be placing his work in relation to epics of virgil and homer. Formal inventions of poetry have had origins in poet"s desire to shed the clich s of present or associations of the past. **meter says that a poem must be heard as poem, the presence of a meter sets the language or distinct from ordinary speech. Strong-lined poetry: (of whatever period) the poetic rhythms create meaning through intricacies of their ply with the material frame. **according to accented syllables suggest slow, emphatic, or the difficult. **grouping of unaccented syllables suggest speed, lightness, and ease. Sudden rhythmic reversal of ten accompanies a surprise ( a turn of thought), a new tone of voice, an intensification.
