ENG 380Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Alice Fulton, Epanalepsis, Enjambment
13 Sep 2017
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*refer to birkerts" flow chart* (on packet postmodern poetic form: a theory) Beyond traditional prosody and its analysis of rhythm and meter to find language with which to speak about all the pattern-making possibilities of verse . Very visual with use of white space (to mimic something/ abstract / temporal emphasize or defamiliarize the line) Repetitive devices like epanalepsis. - ending sentence with opening word. Enjambment with line breaks lines starting with verbs from previous lines. In largest terms, the search for style is a search for a language that does justice to our knowledge of how the world works . Geo repeats an identical pattern at various scales (cascades) Any line examined closely, richly detailed as whole poem. Poem contains infinite regression of details / pattern within pattern. Digression, interruption, fragmentation, lack of continuity (are formal functions rather than lapses into formlessness) All directions of motion and rhythm will be equally probable (isotrophy)
