The Track of the Repetend: Syntactic and Lexical Repetition in Modern Poetry |
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... simile is only the logical extension of the simile's inherently digressive potential . But Stevens's are expanded epic similes , since , following a pattern first discernible in Dante , 15 they tend to embed still other similes ...
... simile is only the logical extension of the simile's inherently digressive potential . But Stevens's are expanded epic similes , since , following a pattern first discernible in Dante , 15 they tend to embed still other similes ...
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... simile - a simile which modifies the initial seeing : " as if it came back , as if life came back . . . . ' But the embodiment of the principle of eternal recurrence is highly qualified by the new simile . The return is not a ...
... simile - a simile which modifies the initial seeing : " as if it came back , as if life came back . . . . ' But the embodiment of the principle of eternal recurrence is highly qualified by the new simile . The return is not a ...
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... simile . This speculative correspondence between the self , a transcend- ent world and simile is tested in the following and final two stanzas by a question : " What self , for example , did he contain that had not yet been loosed ...
... simile . This speculative correspondence between the self , a transcend- ent world and simile is tested in the following and final two stanzas by a question : " What self , for example , did he contain that had not yet been loosed ...
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