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  2. Persona poetry - Wikipedia

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    Rather than the poem representing the voice of the author, as in much lyric poetry, the speaker in Pound's persona poems is a made-up character with whom Pound did not completely identify. This allowed Pound to be satiric, even sarcastic, not only about the subject of the poems but about their speaker, although he sometimes appears to share the ...

  3. Oral-formulaic theory in Anglo-Saxon poetry - Wikipedia

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    It was also observed in other works of Germanic origin, Middle English poetry, and even an Icelandic prose saga. John Richardson held that the schema was so general as to apply to virtually any character at some point in the narrative, and thought it an instance of the "threshold" feature of Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey monomyth. J. A.

  4. John Milton's poetic style - Wikipedia

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    He is able to establish divine action and his divine characters in a superior way to other Renaissance epic poets, including Ludovico Ariosto or Torquato Tasso. [ 6 ] In Paradise Lost Milton also ignores the traditional epic format, which started with Homer , of a plot based on a mortal conflict between opposing armies with deities watching ...

  5. Oral-formulaic composition - Wikipedia

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    Magoun thought that formulaic poetry was necessarily oral in origin. That sparked a major and ongoing debate over the extent to which Old English poetry, which survives only in written form, should be seen as, in some sense, oral poetry. The oral-formulaic theory of composition has now been applied to a wide variety of languages and works.

  6. Wulf and Eadwacer - Wikipedia

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    The speaker of the poem is arguably separated from her lover and/or husband, Wulf, both symbolically and materially ('Wulf is on iege, ic on oþerre' [Wulf is on an island, I on another]), and this separation is seemingly maintained by threat of violence ('willað hy hine aþecgan' [they will want to ?seize him]), possibly by her own people ('Leodum is minum swylce him mon lac gife' [it is to ...

  7. Figure of speech - Wikipedia

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    Chiasmus: two or more clauses related to each other through a reversal of structures in order to make a larger point. subordinate class to antimetabole. Climax: arrangement of words in an ascending order. Consonance: repetition of consonant sounds, most commonly within a short passage of verse. Correlative verse: matching items in two sequences.

  8. The Poetic Principle - Wikipedia

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    The essay was based on a lecture that Poe gave in Providence, Rhode Island at the Franklin Lyceum.The lecture reportedly drew an audience of 2,000 people. [2]Some Poe scholars have suggested that "The Poetic Principle" was inspired in part by the critical failure of his two early poems "Al Aaraaf" and "Tamerlane", after which he never wrote another long poem.

  9. Ezra Pound's Three Kinds of Poetry - Wikipedia

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    But, while this may represent the origin of the term's usage in modern English, the word "logopoeia" itself was not coined by Pound; it already existed in classical Greek. [ 3 ] Logopoeia is the most recent kind of poetry and does not translate well, according to Pound [ citation needed ] , though he also claimed it was abundant in the poetry ...