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- Title
Intonation and the Conventions of Free Verse.
- Authors
Gerber, Natalie
- Abstract
The role of intonation in verse prosody has been largely ignored by mainstream prosodic criticism, in part because the nature of intonation itself has been poorly understood. This essay draws upon a rich but undervalued critical tradition in literature and linguistics to argue not only that intonation is available as a prosodic measure but also that it possesses structure and that this structure, which differs in important ways from syntactic structure, informs and enriches our understanding of the movement of the free-verse line. Thus, whereas the usual conversations about free verse focus on the unfolding relationship of line and syntax, this essay argues that we must instead consider a three-way unfolding relationship between line, syntax, and intonation, with the goal of noting how it is often the divergence of these variables that leads to free verse's most memorable lines and effects.
- Subjects
FREE verse; INTONATION (Phonetics); VERSIFICATION; SYNTAX (Grammar); SEMANTICS
- Publication
Style, 2015, Vol 49, Issue 1, p8
- ISSN
0039-4238
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.5325/style.49.1.0008