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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Verse form"”.
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The Ends of a Line and the Passion of History
… this apparently trivial or aleatory feature of verse is in fact instructive to fundamental questions of the philosophy of form and poetry’s relationship to history. I begin by tracing Wordsworth’s term passion through his prose writings. A concept he saw as intimate with the line-ending’s …
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"It's all just a bit of a mess when drugs are involved, it really is". A narrative study of young people who have recently been discharged from a specialist support service for their substance use
… three males aged seventeen to eighteen in rough verse form and then individually analysed the narratives using Engels’ narrative analysis approach. The young males have recently been discharged from a specialist support service for their use of drugs and/or alcohol which has caused concern. The …
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CRAFTING THE FEVER
… journeys to overcome her fear and achieve a transformation. The collection also contains elegies written in lyrical, free-verse form. I also explicate how I employ line breaks to exaggerate the multiplicity of lines, words and connotations. This collection works toward understanding and redefining …
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This Is Only A Test
… expose them in my aesthetic project, using free verse, form, and invented form to set them against the unexpected. By using and departing from traditional poetic forms I create new ways of reading the content. In writing about themes such as fertility, relationships, sexuality, and violence I …
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Style in Performance: The Prosody of Poetic Recitation.
… allows prosodic properties of the text and of performance to be clearly separated. In Section I previous linguistic models of poetic prosody are reviewed, and it is concluded that they have either confined themselves to metre and word-stress patterns, prosodic properties that are inherent in the …
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Spectres of Metre: English Poetry in Classical Measures, 1860-1930
Why did so many poets attempt English verse in Ancient Greek and Latin metres during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? And what was at stake in these attempts? The most immediate importance of these questions to literary criticism is the fact that they mark one of the most striking …
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'A divine centurie of spirituall sonnets': the religious sonnet in early modern England
… of the sonnet as genre rather than strictly as form, it proposes a way of thinking more subtly and flexibly about the ways in which we define ‘sonnethood’: that is, in terms that no longer equate ‘sonnethood’ to a mere shell or mould of a form but that also give due consideration to the …
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Theto ya sebjalebjale ya maitekelo (Sepedi)
… organized in terms of content, structure, stanza form and rhyme. This study uses two research methodologies, namely definition and description of pertinent aspects of the poems related to the topic of study, modern Sepedi poetry. The model used examines the structure of the texts in terms of the …
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Anthologizing Shakespeare, 1593-1603
… to 'Hamlet', to show how that culture shaped the formative works of his career. Shakespeare, I argue, was keenly attuned to this way of reading, and to the distinctive poetic and dramatic possibilities it opened up. By rereading his works through the passages these anthologies extract, we can get …
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Kentering wending knik. Dynamiek in modern dichterschap
… conviction that poetry can do more than other forms of language. Judging paradigms other than modern poetry as insufficient, these poets saw poetry as, in the words of Wallace Stevens, ‘the supreme fiction’. Modern poetry in their view was characterized by negativity in that it refuted other …