The Anatomy of PoetryIt is impossible to appreciate poetry fully without some knowledge of the various aspects of poetic technique. The present work explains all the usual technical terms without deterring the reader by an excess of formalism and pedantry: Miss Boulton shows that is in fact possible to approach a poem in a business-like manner without spoiling its magic or losing enjoyment of its music. She demonstrates further that no other approach is business-like, since no other will get near the reality of the poem. -- From publisher's description. |
Contents
THE IMPORTANCE OF FORM | 1 |
П THE PHYSICAL FORM OF POETRY | 8 |
A METRE | 17 |
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Common terms and phrases
alliteration anapaestic associations Auden ballads basic metre basic pattern beauty blood Byron classical common contemporary context couplet criticism D. H. Lawrence dactylic Day Lewis death Definition doth dramatic dull echo ring effect emotional English poetry example Ezra Pound feminine rhyme flowers foot in lines free verse give Herbert Read hypermetric syllable iambic pentameter intellectual intonation inversion ke-bonk kind look Louis MacNeice love thee lyric meaning mental form Milton narrative never onomatopoeia onomatopoeic Oxford Book pararhymes perhaps physical form plays poet possible probably prose quatrain reader refrain repetition rhyme-scheme rhythm Richard Aldington ritual roses sense Shakespeare Shelley sing sometimes Sonnets sound speech stanza stressed syllable student suggests sweet Swinburne T. S. Eliot teachers Tennyson tetrameter things thou tion trochaic unrhymed unstressed variations verse form vowel weak Wilfred Owen woods may answer words write