Blank Verse Contemporary

Question 1

In America blank verse has become
The reason may have to do with the ?
The poetic line has become so ? That even ?

Answer 1

A rarity toward end of 20th century
Favor plain speech enjoys
Shorter a tetrameter line at times seems long

Question 2

Today’s poetry has taken on the ?

Elaborate sentences are considered part of ?

Answer 2

Directness of journalism and simplicity of speech
Mandarin speech: inauthentic self involved not committed to communication and not committed to delivering what might be easily acknowledged as truth of mood

Question 3

Our present day preference for directness =

Answer 3

Fewer subordinate or qualifying causes and adj. or adv. that might lengthen a sentence

Question 4

Our mistrust of ? Has made it hard for us to ?

Answer 4

Verbal play

Accept sentences that extend beyond three or four stress line

Question 5

Our rejection of elaboration is a ? But never has it made such a

Answer 5

Puritan inheritance

Deep claims on a contemporary literary style

Question 6

Short declarative sentences usually in past or present tense suggest a

Answer 6

Resistance to what blank verse offers : greater suspension of the sentence and acceptance of duration and description of thought

Question 7

Many of today’s poets do not ? And if they had

Answer 7

Hear blank verse

There is no certainty they would recognize

Question 8

There is a misconception about blank verse that it must be as? And as obviously

Answer 8

Stressed as marlowes

Rhetorical

Question 9

The complexity of Milton’s blank verse or the subletly and suppleness of wordsowrhs are

Answer 9

Largely Unacknowledged by today’s poets who care more about audience response than to metrical considerations