Sound and Musicality Flashcards
1
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Frye: Musicality in Poetry
A
‘the chief characteristics of musical poetry are continuity and stress accent’
‘run on lines…are musical…a single line [as a unit] tends to be unmusical’
2
Q
Milton on rhyme
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‘Barbaric’, ‘constrains’ meaning, ‘jingling of like endings’ (suggests lower seriousness, almost comic?)
3
Q
Weller
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“lyric is a figuration of experience outside of history” [dispute]
