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Michael Ferber’s accessible introduction to poetry’s unusual uses of language tackles a wide range of subjects from a linguistic point of view. Written with the non-expert in mind, the book explores current linguistic concepts and theories and applies them to a variety of major poetic features.
The first procedure takes those elements of language which do not themselves normally carry meaning and treats them as though they did: thus all words have sounds, but rhyme creates the illusion of meaningful relations of similarity and opposition between words and related sounds; thus some sound combinations can be spoken smoothly, others with ...
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Understood in the context of actual poetry, poetic language is not nice-sounding words that have no real meaning. Poetic language is the fullest possible language. Poets pack the absolute maximum of meaning (in every sense of the word) into every part of the poem.
In this accessible guide, Andrew Hodgson equips the reader for the challenging and rewarding experience of unlocking poetry, considering the key questions about language, technique, feeling, and subject matter which illuminate what a poem has to say.
Abstract: Poetry is literary work in metrical form or patterned language. It can also be said as the art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, designed to produce pleasure through beautiful, elevated, imaginative, or profound thoughts.
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The Languages of Poetry* Glenn W. Most I OF LATE A HUSH seems to have fallen upon the once noisily debated issues of poetic language. Can poetry be distin-guished, on the basis of essentially linguistic criteria, from other uses of language? Is there such a thing as a poetic language demonstrably different from the language of prose? Or should we
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Jan 15, 2021 · Poetic language is fundamentally figurative; figurative language is language used in a nonliteral manner, as in words or phrases that convey meaning beyond or in addition to the dictionary definition of those words. For example, the statement “The town judge is intelligent” is a direct description.
