Rhythm and Poetry: Understanding Metre and Feet in English Poetry - Prof. Falces Sierra, Apuntes de Idioma Inglés

¡Descarga Rhythm and Poetry: Understanding Metre and Feet in English Poetry - Prof. Falces Sierra y más Apuntes en PDF de Idioma Inglés solo en Docsity! TEL - Unit 2 - RHYTHM AND POETRY. METRE March 4th Prof. Marta Falces Sierra  GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS WHAT'S RHYTHM?  PROSODY - Def.  English prosody: ACCENTUAL-SYLLABIC ICTuS (X)- [strong] REMISS (u) – [weak]  METRE “Poetry can exploit the way we use stress when we speak to create rhythms. When stress is organized to form regular rhythms, the term used for it is metre. “(Thornborrow, 1998: 34)  FEET: IAMB (u X): And palm to palm is holy palmer’s kiss. TROCHEE (X u): Willows whiten, aspens quiver ANAPEST (u u X): Without cause be he pleased, without cause be he cross DACTYL (X u u): One for the master, and one for the dame SPONDEE ( X X): And a black Back gull bent like an iron bar slowly PYRRHIC / u u/: And a black Back gull bent like an iron bar slowly  FOOT AND LINES: One foot per line: monometer Two feet per line: dimeter Three feet per line: trimeter Four feet per line: tetrameter Five feet per line: pentameter Six feet per line: hexameter Seven feet per line: heptameter Eight feet per line: octameter  Further comments: Description of a line should always identify type of foot and number of feet. SPONDEES and PYRRHICS are never used as basic patterns. INVERTED FOOT. A iamb inserted into a trochaic or viceversa, Can you identify the metres in the following lines? (1. is completely regular, but 2 has variations in its metre) EX.1 Emily Dickinson Wild Nights – Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our luxury! Wild nights! Wild nights! Were I with thee, Wild nights should be Our luxury! Futile the winds TEL - Unit 2 - RHYTHM AND POETRY. METRE March 4th Prof. Marta Falces Sierra To a heart in port, Done with the compass, Done with the chart. Rowing in Eden! Ah! the sea! Might I but moor To-night in thee! Ex.2 Dark House "In Memoriam" By Alfred, Lord Tennyson Dark house, by which once more I stand Here in the long unlovely street Doors, where my heart was used to beat So quickly, waiting for a hand, A hand that can be clasp’d no more Behold me, for I cannot sleep, And like a guilty thing I creep At earliest morning to the door. He is not here; but far away The noise of life begins again, And ghastly thro’ the drizzling rain On the bald street breaks the blank day. <http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=1569>  ENJAMBMENT Everyone old has dreamed of all their lives - Bonds and gestures pushed to one side Like an outdated combine harvester, And everyone young going down long slide To happiness, endlessly. (Larkin, "High Windows")  INTONATION, METRE AND MEANING It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul - Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars - It is the cause. Yet I'll not shed her blood... (Shakespeare, Othello, V (ii) 1-3)  RHYTHM AND TIMING My lady's maid had a silken scarf, And a golden ring she had, And a kiss from the stranger, as off he went Again on his fair palfrey (Keats, Song)  POETIC FUNCTIONS OF SOUND AND METRE A. Can you identify the metres in the following lines? (1. is completely regular, but 2. And 3 have variations in their metre)