The Track of the Repetend: Syntactic and Lexical Repetition in Modern Poetry |
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... shift brings the biblical allusion to the surface in a new and strikingly local context : that of the rise and fall of historical " houses " which is a major theme of " East Coker . " The key to the shift from the metaphysical to the ...
... shift brings the biblical allusion to the surface in a new and strikingly local context : that of the rise and fall of historical " houses " which is a major theme of " East Coker . " The key to the shift from the metaphysical to the ...
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... shift to prayer of the closing strophe , and the subsequent shift to the optative which will be the domain of the last stanza . The re- markable thing about this terminus is that its prayer is no longer to be relegated , as in the other ...
... shift to prayer of the closing strophe , and the subsequent shift to the optative which will be the domain of the last stanza . The re- markable thing about this terminus is that its prayer is no longer to be relegated , as in the other ...
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... shift as well , for , of course , this projected future , this " finding " has already , imper- ceptibly , shifted into the past ( “ as if evening found , ” ) and , finally , into the timelessness of the adverb and participle , " still ...
... shift as well , for , of course , this projected future , this " finding " has already , imper- ceptibly , shifted into the past ( “ as if evening found , ” ) and , finally , into the timelessness of the adverb and participle , " still ...
Contents
Repetition Times Trace | 1 |
History and Structure | 45 |
Refrain Types Exemplified | 63 |
Copyright | |
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Common terms and phrases
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