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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analogous anaphoric appears appositional becomes beginning called clause close comes complex construction context contrast creates critical death definition effect elements Eliot equivalence example fact figures final force formal four frame function given gives groupings hand human idea identical implies initial involves kind language later less lexical lyric meaning medial metaphor mind mode modified nature noun opening pair parallelism passage pattern phonic phrase play poem poem's poet poetic poetry position possible predication present Press question reader reading reference refrain refrain line relation repeated repetends repetition rhetorical seems seen semantic sense sentence shift similar simile song sound speech stanza statement Stevens Stevens's strophe structure suggests symmetry syntactic syntactic repetition syntax takes terminal things thought tion turn units University verse Whitman whole wind