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Idiot Verse by Keaton Henson

Edit Huffington Post 02 Jun 2016
"I am willing to pay due respect to the poetry of George Meredith, of Thomas Hardy, of DH Lawrence as part of their oeuvre, without conceding that it is as good as it might have been had they chosen to dedicate their whole lives to that form of art.". - T.S ... In 2010, Keaton Henson made the album, Dear ... Towards the end of the collection, he effortlessly presents 'Sanctuary' in the same incantatory trochaic rhythm of Macbeth's witches.....

Let’s celebrate how language works as well as what it expresses

Edit The Guardian 16 May 2016
Chris Riddell’s drawings of linguistic elements – graphemes, phonemes, cohesive devices etc – as bizarre and fantastic creatures (Children’s laureate rises to a beastly challenge, 14 May) are witty for sure, but let’s not jeer too loudly ... Where is the evidence that it will be effective? ... It’s an old argument ... It is as legitimate to know these things as it is to know what a rhyming couplet is, or a trochaic foot, or a sonnet ... ....

Poem of the Week: Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister by Robert Browning

Edit The Guardian 09 May 2016
One monk’s foibles are another’s motivation for murder in this growling outburst of a poem, told with a rhythm that punches like a fist. Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister. I ... Needs its leaden vase filled brimming?Hell dry you up with its flames!. II. At the meal we sit together;. Salve tibi! I must hear ... Not a plenteous cork crop ... IV ... Browning’s 8-line, trochaic tetrameter stanza ironically echoes the formal four-square pieties of the hymnal....

The Rare Vin Scully

Edit The Atlantic 24 Apr 2016
Mark J. Terrill / Harry Hall / AP / Kara Gordon / The Atlantic ... An iced box strapped around my neck, I began to walk down from the sky, it seemed, into a cavernous bowl radiating heat ... Until I heard a familiar voice ... And is ... * * * ... One strike away.”) It scans poetically, too—trochaic pentameter actually—urgent, even insistent, with a double-stressed spondee (“One strike”) before ending with a teasing iamb, keeping us hanging in the air ... Mr....

Recommendations on How to Stay Prepared in the Workplace (Smithsonian National Museum of African Art)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Apr 2016
(Source. Smithsonian National Museum of African Art). Poetry is frequently referred to as'literature in metrical variety' or'arrangements forming rhythmic outlines' ... Levels increase by about 10 to 20 points each and every period ... Cases ... Trochee (Trochaic) - One accented syllable followed by one weak syllable ... - From Bill Shakespeare's 'Richard II' (Act II, Scene 3) A Trochaic Tetrameter In the event you ASK me, WHENCE tales? WHENCE these....

Breaking: Chaucer Scholar Analyzes Trump Attack Haiku

Edit TPM 08 Mar 2016
We've had some good emails to date on the Trump Attack Haiku. And if you follow my Twitter feed you'll know I've been experimenting with the form myself. But now we're really getting somewhere ... (Yes, I'm basically in love. She had me at 'scansion'.) KC's analysis after the jump ... But this is NOT metered speech ... Alas.) ... Only line 3 has the same pattern (as I scanned both line 3s, so opinions may vary!) as the first tweet, the trochaic Bo ... ....

Poem of the week: Autumn Rain by DH Lawrence

Edit The Guardian 22 Feb 2016
Intensely alive to the details of the natural world, Lawrence here combines the energy of his free verse with formal invention. Autumn Rain. The plane leaves. fall black and wet. on the lawn;. the cloud sheaves. in heaven’s fields set. droop and are drawn. in falling seeds of rain;. the seed of heaven. on my face. falling — I hear again ... for instance, the inversion in “echoes even” sounds out the trochaic regularity of repeated footsteps ... ....

Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump nail the 'I'm-mad-as-hell' rhetorical style

Edit The Guardian 31 Jan 2016
Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders don’t have much in common – other than looking a bit like designs for Muppet Show characters that never quite made it to screen. Politically, they could scarcely be further apart ... Just look at that finger. it’s a small marvel ... They are a long pile-driving sequence of strong (often trochaic) stresses – jab, jab, jab – followed by an outro of unstressed syllables accompanied by that sweep....

Juliet Carpenter's Ingenue at Blindside Gallery plays with video's possibilities

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 19 Jan 2016
VISUAL ARTS. JULIET CARPENTER. INGENUE. Blindside, Level 7, Room 14, Nicholas Building, 37 Swanston St. Until February 14. As the art of video continues its demotic spread, it presents artists with tantalising options ... Video is both ubiquitous as social media and common as contemporary art ... Advertisement ... Even the polished delivery of Robin Hyde's Tryst fluffs the trochaic rhythm ... blindside.org.au/play ... ....

Why I love poetry, despite my English classes

Edit The Guardian 09 Oct 2015
Dalloway ... The poems we were reading were reduced to stanzas written in iambic pentameter or trochaic tetrameter with an ABAB rhyme scheme, and examiners gave many more marks for correctly identifying a poem’s refrain than a sensitive, personal, sophisticated response to the beauty of the words and ideas expressed within the poetry ... Hardly the best way to develop a love of poetry ... It was favourite bedtime listening for quite a few years....

Warped Tour 2015: Interview with MC Lars

Edit The Examiner 29 Aug 2015
Sometimes you’re presented with an opportunity to interview a unique artist that you otherwise never would have found out about. In this case, the artist in question is MC Lars, a California rapper whose raps are about things like Game of Thrones, Edgar Allen Poe poems, and Shakespearean plays ... in the future ... Hali Neal. How are you doing today?. MC Lars ... HN ... ML ... Like, the trochaic octameter of “The Raven” is kind of like the hip-hop cadence....

Poem of the week: Decline and Fall by Nic Aubury

Edit The Guardian 10 Aug 2015
A poetic parody of Gilbert & Sullivan’s Major-General’s Song with its own satirical target – the demotion of classics from the literary curriculum. Decline and Fall. (A cautionary tale which may or may not be sung to the tune of Gilbert & Sullivan’s Major-General’s Song). Homer wrote the Iliad and latterly the Odyssey ... The first line of Decline and Fall is actually trochaic – a strong, confident foot to step out on ... Over to you. ....

Tabloid editor behind legendary headline ‘Headless body in topless bar’ dies

Edit The Miami Herald 11 Jun 2015
Vincent Musetto, whose New York Post headline “Headless body in topless bar” defined 1980s tabloid journalism and became one of the most memorable – if not infamous – headlines in newspaper history, died Tuesday at a hospital in New York City. He was 74 ... It made “Saturday Night Live” and the David Letterman show; a literary scholar praised its “trochaic rhythm” in the National Review ... “I guess maybe they’d be shocked.”....
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