The Poem by Paterson, Don -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Landing Page Title Page Dedication Epigraph Contents Preface PART I: Lyric: The Sound of the Poem

Poetry and Music Memory Silence The Phonestheme Noise Lyric, Vowel and Consonant Rhyme The Lyric Weave Thing and Thought

PART II: Sign: The Domain of the Poem

Introduction The Conceptual Domain Types of Trope The Poetic Contract Concrete, Abstract and Symbol Four Semes, Four Tropes Towards a Taxonomy of Poetic Trope Deixis, Paranoia and Errors in Transmission The Intertextual Meaning and Reading

PART III: Metre: The Rhythm of the Poem

Introduction Some Basic Terms A Glossary of Terms in Metre and Scansion Pulse Isochrony Stress Metre and the Foot ‘Resting State’ Prosody Introjection, Projection, Metricality and Convergence Overdetermination The Line and Memory Line Length Line-Break and Enjambment Line Beginnings Closure The Caesura Punctuation A Note on the Prose Poem The Alternate Stress Rule Alternate Stress in Language The AS Matrix The Limitations of the AS Matrix The Problem of Notation AS and Ghosts Nuclear Stress in the AS Matrix AS: Key Points Tight, Loose and Light Metres Free Verse and Free Metre Polysemic Verse and Stress Strong Stress Metre: Anglo-Saxon Verse, ‘Accentual Metre’ and Rap Phrasemic Analysis Towards a Definition of Poetic Function Two Kinds of Line: 4-Strong and Iambic Pentameter The Dramatic and Lyric Modes of I.P. Scansion: Notational Systems in the Four Metre-Types Two Criticisms Projection Errors The Rules of Metrical Variation Interpretative Scansion: A Method Scanning Tight Metres Scanning Loose Metres Scanning Light Metres A Note on Metrical Composition Conclusion

Endnotes Bibliography Index About the Author By the Same Author Copyright

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