The Track of the Repetend: Syntactic and Lexical Repetition in Modern Poetry |
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... axis of language would first come into play , and my " selections " from this axis might include a princess ( or a little peasant girl ) , a castle ( or a hovel ) , a prince charming ( or a little boy ) , etc. Paradigmatic selection to ...
... axis of language would first come into play , and my " selections " from this axis might include a princess ( or a little peasant girl ) , a castle ( or a hovel ) , a prince charming ( or a little boy ) , etc. Paradigmatic selection to ...
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... axis becomes a kind of storehouse of me- taphoric relations in language . This axis , therefore , is the privi- leged axis of poetry . The syntagmatic axis , on the other hand , is the axis of ordering , of " combination , " by which ...
... axis becomes a kind of storehouse of me- taphoric relations in language . This axis , therefore , is the privi- leged axis of poetry . The syntagmatic axis , on the other hand , is the axis of ordering , of " combination , " by which ...
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... axis predominates , and his oft - quoted axiom states that " the poetic function projects the principle of equivalence from the axis of selection [ paradigmatic ] to the axis of combination [ syntag- matic ] . ” ' 42 Simply stated ...
... axis predominates , and his oft - quoted axiom states that " the poetic function projects the principle of equivalence from the axis of selection [ paradigmatic ] to the axis of combination [ syntag- matic ] . ” ' 42 Simply stated ...
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