Poetry is a genre of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language—such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre — to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the literal or mundane meaning. Poetry has a very long history, dating back to prehistoric times wit...
The notion of text, along with the issues relating to how variable or fixed a text may be, has been a central issue in the study of oral literature for some time. In this article it will be argued that the notion of the poetic text as being unchangeable is central to Somali maanso ...
What the love of love is to the Shakespearian comedies, that other and more mysterious human passion, the love of death, is to ‘L’Aiglon.’ Whether we shall ever have in England a new tradition of poetic comedy it is difficult at present to say, but we shall assuredly never have it...
109.OldNordictypesof texts I: OldIcelandicandOldNorwegian981109.Old Nordic types of texts I: Old Icelandicand Old Norwegian1.Introduction2.Poetry3.Saga literature4.Non-fictionalprose5.Literature(a selection)1.IntroductionThisoverviewis concernedwith allvernaculartexttypes producedin IcelandandNorwaybetween...
These genres will give you a better understanding of the basics before progressing on to more. When you’re ready to go deeper, poetry is the next stepping stone. Children’s poetry is a great starting point to give you a good foundation of poetic structure and meaning. Then you can go ...
Metre, in poetry, the rhythmic pattern of a poetic line. Various principles, based on the natural rhythms of language, have been devised to organize poetic lines into rhythmic units. These have produced distinct kinds of versification, among which the mo
Also known as: poetic rhythm Written and fact-checked by The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Article History Related Topics: poetry metre sprung rhythm rhythm See all related content rhythm, in poetry, the patterned recurrence, within a certain range of regularity, of specific language features...
of bodily motions and step figurations. But logogenic, or word-determined, music also often employs metrical patterns, corresponding as a rule to those of the poetic text. The first large corpus of logogenic compositions transmitted through the ages is that ofmedievalplainchant, consisting of ...
(Bar); but these types shared many features of the Franco-Burgundiancompositions. The chanson consists of two principal sections of music, with no text repetition except as required by the poetic structure. Three contrasting voices are standard:cantus,tenor, andcountertenor. The cantus typically ...