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Analysis of Metrical Variations Ferrick Gray October 2024 This analysis uses the version from: The Twickenham Edition of thePoems of Alexander PopeGeneral Editor: John Butt Volume II — The Rape of the Lock and Other PoemsThe Five Canto Version of…
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Comments on Eliot’s “Reflections on Vers Libre”
Eliot’s article appeared in “The New Statesman”, Volume 8, March 3, 1917, pp 518-19 Eliot’s essay concerning vers libre is extremely important. One may even say that it is ground-breaking because it puts to rest the so-called free verse movement.…
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Whāt hăs (Mōthĕr) Nātŭre Dōne?
Spenserian Sonnet by Ferrick Gray This sonnet is from Thĕ (Study of) Trees published on Google Play Books, Amazon and Draft2Digital, ISBN 9780648224648. It is included here with additions, corrections and improved scansion notation which will appear later in the…
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On T. S. Eliot’s “Shelley and Keats”
This lecture by T. S. Eliot was delivered at Harvard University, February 17, 1933 I am a great admirer of Mr. Eliot’s work (Eliot from now on), both poetry, prose and critical essays. Albeit I do not find the enthusiasm…
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1953 Corona Standard Typewriter
When writing my essays or analyses, I do not draft them on a computer, that process is for later when or if I decide to post the article here. My metrical analyses are always hand written due to the use…
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Shelley’s “Ozymandias”
Ozymandias I met a traveller from an antique landWho said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stoneStand in the desart … Near them, on the sand,Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,Tell…
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The Dos and Don’ts when using Heroic Couplets
Heroic couplets have been a useful and successful vehicle in formal poetry. They have a uniqueness to them that is pleasing in both a visual and audible sense. The heroic couplet became popular from the influence of the likes of…
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The Poet’s Voice
Ferrick Gray How many times have I said this? Ha! Be yourself, and do not try to be someone else. I mention this in my essay Charging Poetry with Meaning, but I will elaborate further in what follows. There are…
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What’s this Thing called Meter?
Ferrick Gray Meter — Something modern poets try to avoid. Music for Composition When we talk of meter in accentual-syllabic verse, it is not something that should be obvious. If it is obvious, then your work will be of little…
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Charging Poetry with Meaning
With a few words from Ezra Pound Ways to Group Poetry How would you group different styles of poetry? It seems that there are a whole host of ways of doing this. As we may suspect, as many ways as…
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