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... poetry . Readers with an exclusively literary or exclusively linguistic background may find that occasionally they are asked to think in ways more characteristic of the other discipline , but advances in the study of poetic language ...
... poetry . Readers with an exclusively literary or exclusively linguistic background may find that occasionally they are asked to think in ways more characteristic of the other discipline , but advances in the study of poetic language ...
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... poetic interpretation , however habitual it may have become . Given , then , that both the signs of language and the mimetic devices of poetry are conventional modes of representation , it is not surprising that the system which is more ...
... poetic interpretation , however habitual it may have become . Given , then , that both the signs of language and the mimetic devices of poetry are conventional modes of representation , it is not surprising that the system which is more ...
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... poetry , a ' frame ' , in I. A. Richards's words , ' isolating the poetic experience from the accidents and irrelevancies of everyday existence ' ( 1924 , p . 112 ) . A poet who for a time tried to combat this specialisation of poetic ...
... poetry , a ' frame ' , in I. A. Richards's words , ' isolating the poetic experience from the accidents and irrelevancies of everyday existence ' ( 1924 , p . 112 ) . A poet who for a time tried to combat this specialisation of poetic ...
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TRADITIONAL APPROACHES | 3 |
LINGUISTIC APPROACHES | 44 |
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acceptable alliteration allow already alternation approach beat beginning chapter classical common complex conventions course create demands demotion deviation discussion distinction double offbeat duple effect emphasis English example expectations experience expressive fact falling final five-beat four-beat function further give given hand iambic implied offbeat important indicate initial instance inversion kind language less linguistic means metre metrical pattern metrical set movement natural nonstresses normal noted observed occur opening optional pairing particular pause pentameter perceived perhaps phrase poem poetry poets position possible preference principle produces promotion pronunciation provides reader reading realisation reflect regular result rhyme rhythm rhythmic rules scansion semantic sense sequence simple single sounds speech stanza stress strong structure style subordination suggest syntactic tension theory third tradition triple trochaic underlying units unstressed syllables usually variation verse