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1929–2013 United States
John Hollander (October 28, 1929 – August 17, 2013) was an American poet and literary critic.
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Contrastive stress is very important in English, as poems are full of invisible italicised contrasts of this kind.
The building blocks of poetry itself are elements if fiction -fable, 'image', metaphor-all the material if the nonliteral.
One crosses the brink of literalness into poetry by desiring , noticing, fixing on something and wondering what to make of it.
English Prosody has tended to be a subject for cranks.
'Poetic form' is a very deep matter that covers much more than phonological or typological pattern.
The blueprints of verse can be used to build things made of literal, or nonpoetic material, which is why most verse is not poetry.
A teacher (of poetry) has to know and feel what poetry is , and be able - and this is crucial- to read it aloud effectively.
Poetry may be written on paper, but it’s an oral art.A good poem satisfies the ear .It creates a story or picture that grabs you.
You can teach the writing of verse..like prose..an instrument..and the recognition of true poetry. The rest, writers must teach themselves.
Metre is to rhythm as eye is to ear.
Rhythm and repetition of sounds, words and phrases make spoken poetry sound different to ordinary discourse.
Central also to reading verse aloud is the handling of enjambment, ..the interplay of line-end and sentence-flow.
The more you understand a poem and its complexities and depth, the more you will be able to do when reading it aloud.
Reciting a poem aloud, you are not like an actor, rather you come to understand, then to be, the voice of the poem itself.
Reading a poem aloud by someone who understands it, can be a crucial experience, but better yet is reading it aloud oneself.
I find free verse very, very difficult to write.
Ultimately poetic thought is interpretive.
Very few writers of verse can read their work to keep their listeners aware of the beauty of sense, that sense of beauty from the powerful , delicate ways in which sense is made by poetry.
Poetic form, as we know it, is an abstraction from, or residue of musical form.... The ghost of oral poetry never vanishes...all poetry was originally oral.
The large (in English) unphilosophical, 'poetic' or 'religious' questions are elicited from their precise and technical microcosms.