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  2. John Milton's poetic style - Wikipedia

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    Here again he was not an innovator, following for example the Adamus Exul (1601) of Hugo Grotius, and the Adamo (1615) of Giovanni Battista Andreini. Milton believed that the Bible was a precursor to the classical forms relied on by the Greeks and Romans, and that the Bible accomplished what the Greeks and Romans wished in a more suitable ...

  3. The Heresy of Paraphrase - Wikipedia

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    The reason the simple refutation does not work is because there is a distinction between expressions and "their vehicles of articulation." [8] Writing in The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics, Alex Neill argues that poems can be paraphrased. The meaning of a poem is often at least partially contained in the "thoughts it articulates," which can be ...

  4. 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.

  5. Poetic devices - Wikipedia

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    Poetic Diction is a style of writing in poetry which encompasses vocabulary, phrasing, and grammatical usage. Along with syntax, poetic diction functions in the setting the tone, mood, and atmosphere of a poem to convey the poet's intention. Poetic devices shape a poem and its meanings.

  6. Poetry analysis - Wikipedia

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    All poetry was originally oral, it was sung or chanted; poetic form as we know it is an abstraction therefrom when writing replaced memory as a way of preserving poetic utterances, but the ghost of oral poetry never vanishes. [28] Poems may be read silently to oneself, or may be read aloud solo or to other people.

  7. Poetic diction - Wikipedia

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    Poetic diction is the term used to refer to the linguistic style, the vocabulary, and the metaphors used in the writing of poetry.In the Western tradition, all these elements were thought of as properly different in poetry and prose up to the time of the Romantic revolution, when William Wordsworth challenged the distinction in his Romantic manifesto, the Preface to the second (1800) edition ...

  8. Free verse - Wikipedia

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    Is 5 by E. E. Cummings, an example of free verse. Free verse is an open form of poetry which does not use a prescribed or regular meter or rhyme [1] and tends to follow the rhythm of natural or irregular speech. Free verse encompasses a large range of poetic form, and the distinction between free verse and other forms (such as prose) is often ...

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

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    Phanopoeia or phanopeia is defined as "a casting of images upon the visual imagination," [1] throwing the object (fixed or moving) on to the visual imagination. In the first publication of these three types, Pound refers to phanopoeia as "imagism."