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Distin- guishing prose from poetry Differences of tone , pace , and object of attention Precision of poetic diction Experienc- ing poetry Kinds of poetic form The coin- cidence. guided in their reading by the balance and shift of the ...
Distin- guishing prose from poetry Differences of tone , pace , and object of attention Precision of poetic diction Experienc- ing poetry Kinds of poetic form The coin- cidence. guided in their reading by the balance and shift of the ...
Page 92
... poetry is carried by the strong - stress and syllable - stress metres . Two other kinds of metres must be mentioned : the purely syllabic metres and the quantitative metres . The count of syllables determines the metres of French ...
... poetry is carried by the strong - stress and syllable - stress metres . Two other kinds of metres must be mentioned : the purely syllabic metres and the quantitative metres . The count of syllables determines the metres of French ...
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... poet as a man and poetry as a form of statement both seemed untrustworthy to Plato , who depicted the physical world as an imperfect copy of transcendent ideas and poetry as a mere copy of the copy . Thus , literature could only mislead ...
... poet as a man and poetry as a form of statement both seemed untrustworthy to Plato , who depicted the physical world as an imperfect copy of transcendent ideas and poetry as a mere copy of the copy . Thus , literature could only mislead ...
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