finding poetry in prose and prose in poetry: discrete skills heart of darkness
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Finding Poetry in Prose and Prose in Poetry: Discrete SkillsHeart of Darkness
Poetry vs. Prose
Prose Poetry• From Latin prosa meaning
straightforward• Also connotes everyday
speech.• Artful prose employs
literary devices.
• Any Rhythmical or Metrical Composition
• Intricate Structure• Evokes Emotional and
Intellectual Response• Rich and Intricate Levels of
Meaning
Poetry vs. Prose
• Vers libre [free verse] has not even the excuse of a polemic; it is a battle-cry of freedom, and there is no freedom in art. And as the so-called vers libre, which is good is anything but 'free', it can better be defended under some other label.
• T.S. Eliot• REFLECTIONS ON VERS LIBRE
Rhetoric vs Prosady
Rhetoric Prosody• The Art of Persuasion
through speaking and writing
• Artful use of stylistic devices to:– Persuade– Praise or Blame– Create Guilt or Innocence
• The Study of Versification, especially– Meter– Rhyme– Rhythm– Sound Patterns
Synonyms
Poetry Prose• Words• Phrases• Sentences• Paragraphs• Chapters
• Syllables• Feet• Lines• Stanzas• Cantos
Figures of Speech
Rhetorical Figures Tropes• Language used to create
special effects:– Antithesis– Apostrophe– Chiasmus– Parallelism– Rhetorical Question– Syllepsis– Zeugma
• To turn or twist the meaning of a word or phrase to make it mean something else– Metaphor– Simile– Metonymy– Synecdoche– Personification
Common Elements of Poetic Prose
• Fragmentation• Compression• Repetition• Rhyme• Epithets
• Inversion, • Lengthy Periodic
Sentences • Nouns and Abstracts
Before Verbs, • Antithesis
Loose and Periodic Sentences
Marlow sat cross-legged right aft, leaning against the mizzenmast.
Marlow sat cross-legged right aft, leaning against the mizzenmast.
He had sunken cheeks, a yellow complexion, a straight back, an ascetic aspect, and with his arms dropped, the palms of hands outwards, resembled an idol
He had sunken cheeks, a yellow complexion, a straight back, an ascetic aspect, and with his arms dropped, the palms of hands outwards, resembled an idol.
Marlow sat cross-legged right aft, leaning against the mizzenmast.
Adverbial Phrases
Marlow sat cross-legged right aft, leaning against the mizzenmast.
He had sunken cheeks, a yellow complexion, a straight back, an ascetic aspect, and with his arms dropped, the palms of hands outwards, resembled an idol
Epithets or Adjective Phrases
He had sunken cheeks, a yellow complexion, a straight back, an ascetic aspect, and with his arms dropped, the palms of hands outwards, resembled an idol
Marlow’s first words about the Manager
• My first interview with the manager was curious.
• PERIODIC SENTENCE• SIMPLE SENTENCE
• He had no learning and no intelligence.• PERIODIC SENTENCE• Litote• Parallel
Short Periodic Sentence
• But he was great.