Language-centered poetry

Language-centered poetry

Where the forms of the words themselves are more significant than the sense or meanings of the words.

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language-centered poetry

Literature; Poetry

where the forms of the words themselves are more significant than the sense or meanings of the words.

poetry

Printing & publishing; Publishing

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Literature; General literature

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poetry

Literature; Poetry

A literary expression in which language is used in a concentrated blend of sound and imagery to create an emotional response; essentially rhythmic, it is usually metrical and ...

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Medical; Health care; Medicine

Works that consist of literary and oral genre expressing meaning via symbolism and following formal or informal patterns.

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Language; Dictionaries

The art of apprehending and interpreting ideas by the faculty of imagination; the art of idealizing in thought and in expression.

alliterative metre

Literature; Poetry

The distinctive verse form of old germanic poetry, including old english.

amoebean verse

Literature; Poetry

A poetic form in which two characters chant alternate lines, couplets, or stanzas, in competition or debate with one another.

anapaest

Literature; Poetry

A metrical foot made up of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable, as in the word 'interrupt'.

anxiety of influence

Literature; Poetry

In the unusual view of literary history offered by the critic Harold Bloom, a poet's sense of the crushing weight of poetic tradition which he has to resist and challenge in order ...

acephalous

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The Greek word for 'headless', applied to a metrical verse line that lacks the first syllable expected according to regular metre.

alcaics

Literature; Poetry

A Greek verse form using a four-line stanza in which the first two lines have eleven syllables each, the third nine, and the fourth ten.

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