Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems EndUniversity of Chicago Press, 1968 - 289 pages In Poetic Closure, distinguished literary scholar Barbara Herrnstein Smith explores the provocative question: How do poems end? To answer it, Smith examines numerous individual poems and examples of common poetic forms in order to reveal the relationship between closure and the overall structure and integrity of a poem. First published in 1968, Smith’s book remains essential reading in poetic theory. |
Table des matières
1 Introduction | 1 |
2 Formal Structure and Closure | 38 |
3 Thematic Structure and Closure | 96 |
4 Special Terminal Features | 151 |
5 Further Aspects and Problems of Closure | 196 |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
alliteration allusions anti-closural appear blank verse chapter characteristic closural effects closural force Collected Poems concluding lines conclusion conventional create death discourse discussed E. E. Cummings earlier emphasize epigram epigrammatic example experience fact final line final stanza formal and thematic formal elements formal principles formal structure free verse I. A. Richards implied integrity J. V. Cunningham John Keats language last line linguistic literary logical Lycidas lyric meter metrical modern poetry nonliterary nonstructural observed paratactic particular pattern perception phrase poet poet's poetic closure prose quatrain reader reader's expectations referred relation response rhyme rhythmic sense of closure Shakespeare's Shakespeare's sonnets significant song sonnet speak speech stability stanzaic strengthen closure structural principle style suggest syntactic systematic repetition terminal features terminal modification thematic elements thematic principles thematic structure thou tion traditional ultimately utterance W. B. Yeats William Carlos Williams words York Yvor Winters
Fréquemment cités
Page xvi - There are few things not purely evil, of which we can say, without some emotion of uneasiness, this is the last. Those who never could agree together, shed tears when mutual discontent has determined them to final separation ; of a place which has been frequently visited, though without pleasure, the last look is taken with heaviness of heart...