Rhythm and repetition of sounds, words and phrases make spo… - John Hollander

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Rhythm and repetition of sounds, words and phrases make spoken poetry sound different to ordinary discourse.

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John Hollander (October 28, 1929 – August 17, 2013) was an American poet and literary critic.

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Poetic form, as we know it, is an abstraction from, or residue of musical form.... The ghost of oral poetry never vanishes...all poetry was originally oral.

We and the trees and the way
Back from the fields of play
Lasted as long as we could No more walks in the wood

Contrastive stress is very important in English, as poems are full of invisible italicised contrasts of this kind.

Rhythm and repetition of sounds, words and phrases make spoken poetry sound different to ordinary discourse. - John Hollander

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