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Feb. 16th, 2004 11:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
novapsycheHere's what Mary Kinzie had to say in A Poet's Guide to Poetry:
Just as the subject of a poem cannot be considered apart from the uses of voices, things, and images, so the line of verse cannot be discussed, let alone produced, without attention to the form of speech it contains. In fact, syntax--or the way the sentence is organized--is one necessary defining principle of the poetic line. All lines of verse either coincide with the phrase, clause, or sentence, thus splitting the phrasal units and causing tension between line and syntax (p. 75).
Viewed as competitors for the rhythmic control of the poem, the line is the conservative force and the sentence the anarchist as it pulls attention away from meter and line, which seek to contain it (p. 76).
Just as the subject of a poem cannot be considered apart from the uses of voices, things, and images, so the line of verse cannot be discussed, let alone produced, without attention to the form of speech it contains. In fact, syntax--or the way the sentence is organized--is one necessary defining principle of the poetic line. All lines of verse either coincide with the phrase, clause, or sentence, thus splitting the phrasal units and causing tension between line and syntax (p. 75).
Viewed as competitors for the rhythmic control of the poem, the line is the conservative force and the sentence the anarchist as it pulls attention away from meter and line, which seek to contain it (p. 76).
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Date: 2004-02-16 11:52 am (UTC)