The Track of the Repetend: Syntactic and Lexical Repetition in Modern Poetry |
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... poet's reliance on syntax . ) 50 Syntax no longer serves its traditional function of making temporal links among the ... poetic message but the whole message as well . This capacity for rei- teration whether immediate or delayed , this ...
... poet's reliance on syntax . ) 50 Syntax no longer serves its traditional function of making temporal links among the ... poetic message but the whole message as well . This capacity for rei- teration whether immediate or delayed , this ...
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... poetic construction is the narrative or syntactic progression , the linear , temporal path from first word to last in the poem . The poet has the liberty , of course , to seize upon any one member of that progression and expand it as ...
... poetic construction is the narrative or syntactic progression , the linear , temporal path from first word to last in the poem . The poet has the liberty , of course , to seize upon any one member of that progression and expand it as ...
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... poet - narrator has found only the sub- version of values in post - Cromwellian Ireland , since only slavish mentalities rule . The first refrain line counters this by indicating the uselessness of complaint , as other refrain ...
... poet - narrator has found only the sub- version of values in post - Cromwellian Ireland , since only slavish mentalities rule . The first refrain line counters this by indicating the uselessness of complaint , as other refrain ...
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