13-09-2015 стилистика / Семинар 5_Stylistic Analysis of Rhyme and Rhythmical Structure
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Лабораторные занятия, 7 семестр
Занятие 5
STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF RHYME AND RHYTHMICAL STRUCTURE
TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION
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Provide definitions for the following concepts:
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rhyme
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rhythm
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foot (in poetry)
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metre
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stanza
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pyrrhic
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spondee
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free verse
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blank verse
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enjambement
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caesura
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euphony
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cacophony
PRACTICE SECTION
1. Analyse the rhythm, rhyme and metre of the poems below. Does the rhythmcal and metrical organisation of the poem support its emotional atmosphere?
William Wordsworth
WHEN LUCY CEASED TO BE
She dwelt among the untrodden ways
Beside the springs of Dove,
A Maid whom there were none to praise
And very few to love:
A violet by a mossy stone
Half hidden from the eye!
Fair as a star, when only one
Is shining in the sky.
She lived unknown, and few could know
When Lucy ceased to be;
But she is in her grave, and oh,
The difference to me!
Percy Bysshe Shelley
WHEN THE LAMP IS SHATTERED
When the lamp is shattered
The light in the dust lies dead—
When the cloud is scattered
The rainbow’s glory is shed.
When the lute is broken,
Sweet tones are remembered not;
When the lips have spoken,
Loved accents are soon forgot.
As music and splendor
Survive not the lamp and the lute,
The heart’s echoes render
No song when the spirit is mute:—
No song but sad dirges,
Like the wind through a ruined cell,
Or the mournful surges
That ring the dead seaman’s knell.
Amy Lowell
NIGHT CLOUDS
The white mares of the moon rush along the sky
Beating their golden hoofs upon the glass Heavens
The white mares are all standing on their hind legs
Pawing at the green porcelain doors of the remote Heavens
Fly, mares!
Strain your utmost
Scatter the milky dust of stars
Or the tigers will leap upon you and destroy you
With one lick of his vermillion tongue.
2. Choose one of the poems from Seminar 4 – ‘Meeting at Night’, ‘Kubla Khan’ or ‘Ballade Made in the Hot Weather’ – and analyse its rhythm, rhyme and metre. Comment upon the way the rhythmcal and metrical organisation of the poem supports the emotional atmosphere in it.