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An Exploration Of Sound & Sense In Poetry, Stephen Carden
An Exploration Of Sound & Sense In Poetry, Stephen Carden
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Various theorists have treated the problem of sound and sense in poetry. The influence of sound in poetry can be found both in the overall musical structure of a poem and in the internal sounds of rhythm and diction. Plato suggests that rhythm and harmony have a direct effect on man, and can establish either balance or disproportion within the soul. The debate whether sound determines sense or sense determines sound is rejected in favor of a third possibility: an interdependent relationship between sound and sense, an intrinsic formal structure, as the ideal governing the creation of poetry. Further, Aristotle …
Ua68/6/1 Zephyrus, Western Kentucky University
Ua68/6/1 Zephyrus, Western Kentucky University
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