The Track of the Repetend: Syntactic and Lexical Repetition in Modern Poetry |
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... Stevens shares the meditative , qualifying style of T. S. Eliot ; Stevens's reliance on traductio , and his coming to abandon figures of epanaphora and symploce testify to his ultimate dissatisfaction with those early forms . But Stevens ...
... Stevens shares the meditative , qualifying style of T. S. Eliot ; Stevens's reliance on traductio , and his coming to abandon figures of epanaphora and symploce testify to his ultimate dissatisfaction with those early forms . But Stevens ...
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... Stevens's syntactic re- petends from those of Whitman or Eliot . First , Stevens's repetends are framed by the meters of traditional prosody , for unlike Eliot and Whitman , he was far more receptive to the formal pressures of ...
... Stevens's syntactic re- petends from those of Whitman or Eliot . First , Stevens's repetends are framed by the meters of traditional prosody , for unlike Eliot and Whitman , he was far more receptive to the formal pressures of ...
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... Stevens often uses the former for the purposes of the latter . Helen Vendler , who has written rather extensively on Stevens's technique of qualification , 11 finds that it yields him not the nice logic of subtle discrimination but ...
... Stevens often uses the former for the purposes of the latter . Helen Vendler , who has written rather extensively on Stevens's technique of qualification , 11 finds that it yields him not the nice logic of subtle discrimination but ...
Contents
Repetition Times Trace | 1 |
History and Structure | 45 |
Refrain Types Exemplified | 63 |
Copyright | |
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anadiplosis analogous anaphoric Antonio appositional Auden Augustine axis becomes cataphoric chiastic clause closure complex construction context contrast creates discourse disjunctive refrain Dylan Thomas elements emphasis enjambed epanalepsis equivalence example fact final formal Four Quartets function grammatical groupings heightening identical implies initial refrains involves Jakobson kind language lexical repetition line-end lyric meaning ment metaphor metrical mind mode modified morphemic noun pair paradigmatic paradox parallelism paranaphora participial passage pattern perception phonic poem poem's poet poetic poetry polyptoton position possible predication prepositional phrases prose prosodic Prospero question reader refrain line relation repeated repetends rhetorical rhyme rhythmic seems semantic sense sentence sequence shift simile simple refrain song speech stanza stanzaic Stevens's strophe structure suggests syllables symmetry syntactic repetition syntax T. S. Eliot temporal tercet things tion traductio verb W. B. Yeats W. H. Auden Wallace Stevens Whitman Whitmanesque Wimsatt wind words Yeats Yeats's