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logopoeia
Term coined by Ezra Pound to describe a poem which induces both melopoeia and phanopoeia by 'stimulating the associations (intellectual or emotional) that have remained in the receiver& [..]
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MacSpaunday
Composite nick-name (devised by Roy Campbell) for Louis MacNeice, Stephen Spender, W.H.Auden and C. Day-Lewis. See also Pylon Poets.
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PHANOPOEIA
Poundian term to describe a poem which relies upon 'throwing a visual image on the mind'. He went on to say that this is particularly exemplified by Chinese poetry because the Chinese [..]
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Pylon Poets
Group of 1930s left-wing poets including W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Cecil Day-Lewis and Louis MacNeice. They were known for their use of industrial imagery - which included references to trains, [..]
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Amphibrachic Meter
Classical meter consisting of three syllables per foot: one short, one long, one short. This meter is seldom used in English, however Jinny the Just by Matthew Prior is an example.
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Caesura
A break in the flow of sound in a line of poetry e.g. in Hamlet's famous soliloquy: To be or not to be || that is the question A caesura can be classified as either feminine (following an unacc [..]
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ACATALECTIC
A complete metrical line - as opposed to a catalectic or truncated line.
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Acrostic
Poem where the first letter of each line spells out a significant word e.g. Flat land stretching Endlessly be- Neath a huge Sky. The term acrostic derives from the Greek for 'at the tip of [..]
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Aesthetic Movement
1880's literary movement associated with Walter Pater and John Ruskin who advocated that art should serve no useful purpose. The term 'art for art's sake' is synonymous with t [..]
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Alexandrine
Originally a twelve syllable meter in French prosody. However, the English equivalent is the iambic hexameter - see meter. An example of alexandrine verse is Testament of Beauty by Robert B [..]
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