The Track of the Repetend: Syntactic and Lexical Repetition in Modern Poetry |
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... mind , it is their apprehension of repetition's capacity to produce significant change through time , to leave its imaginative " track " or " trace " on the mind , that is the source of their eloquence on the subject . Poetic repetition ...
... mind , it is their apprehension of repetition's capacity to produce significant change through time , to leave its imaginative " track " or " trace " on the mind , that is the source of their eloquence on the subject . Poetic repetition ...
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... mind works upon it , turning it into something other than what it appears . It is significant that the metamorphoses occur during the refrain , for as though suggesting the afterthoughts that ex- perience leaves us with , Shakespeare's ...
... mind works upon it , turning it into something other than what it appears . It is significant that the metamorphoses occur during the refrain , for as though suggesting the afterthoughts that ex- perience leaves us with , Shakespeare's ...
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... mind . " Such an enslaving , reduced rationality is what leads to the final impasse enunciated in the poem - the vision of man as “ ignorant . . . ” “ incapable / Of the least , minor , vital metaphor , " and as complacently " content ...
... mind . " Such an enslaving , reduced rationality is what leads to the final impasse enunciated in the poem - the vision of man as “ ignorant . . . ” “ incapable / Of the least , minor , vital metaphor , " and as complacently " content ...
Contents
Repetition Times Trace | 1 |
History and Structure | 45 |
Refrain Types Exemplified | 63 |
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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