A Study of Walt Whitman's Mimetic Prosody: Free-Bound and Full Circle

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Martin (English, Indiana State U.) examines the sounds of Whitman's work to better finds its sense. He explains modern and contemporary reactions to Whitman's poetry in terms of how critics understood his perception of the aural and the oral, his manipulation of prosody in his early works, in which he achieved a conscious appreciation of the spoken within the written, how sound relates to his concepts of the body and sexuality, the music that is within "War Taps," and why Whitman explored conventional metrics in his post-war poems. Martin closes with an examination of the free verse vs. conventional metric arguments that still go on long after Whitman experimented them, in hopes they will continue. Annotation ©2004 Book
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Martin (English, Indiana State U.) examines the sounds of Whitman's work to better finds its sense. He explains modern and contemporary reactions to Whitman's poetry in terms of how critics understood his perception of the aural and the oral, his manipulation of prosody in his early works, in which he achieved a conscious appreciation of the spoken within the written, how sound relates to his concepts of the body and sexuality, the music that is within "War Taps," and why Whitman explored conventional metrics in his post-war poems. Martin closes with an examination of the free verse vs. conventional metric arguments that still go on long after Whitman experimented them, in hopes they will continue. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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  • ISBN-13: 9780773464155
  • Publisher: Mellen, Edwin Press, The
  • Publication date: 1/1/2004
  • Pages: 174
  • Series: Studies in American Literature Ser.
  • Product dimensions: 6.20 (w) x 9.20 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction
I "To be in any form, what is that?" : the reaction to Walt Whitman's new prosody 1
II Feudal but free-bound : the early poems and the forward prosody of the first edition of Leaves of grass 23
III Sex-prosody : early poems of the body and desire in "Children of Adam," "Calamus," and later works on copulation 45
IV The poetic noise of war : sound-patterns in "Drum-taps" 67
V A walking and sea-drifting rhythm 91
VI Full circle : the conventional metrics of Whitman's post-war poems 109
VII Envoi 131
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