Full Text Available
Note: Clicking the button above will open the full text document at the original institutional repository in a new window.
Some elements of modern poetic technique
Bibliography: pages 243-256.
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | |
| Format: | Thesis |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Department of English Language and Literature
2016
|
| Tags: |
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| _version_ | 1867613293361758208 |
|---|---|
| access_status_str | Open Access |
| author | Meyer, Sandra Joy |
| author2 | Beatty, Michael |
| author_browse | Beatty, Michael Meyer, Sandra Joy |
| author_facet | Beatty, Michael Meyer, Sandra Joy |
| author_sort | Meyer, Sandra Joy |
| collection | Thesis |
| description | Bibliography: pages 243-256. |
| format | Thesis |
| id | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/19568 |
| institution | University of Cape Town (South Africa) |
| language | eng |
| last_indexed | 2026-06-10T12:33:49.949Z |
| license_str | Not specified — see source repository |
| provenance_str_mv | Harvested via OAI-PMH from UCTD — University of Cape Town Open Access Repository |
| publishDate | 2016 |
| publishDateRange | 2016 |
| publishDateSort | 2016 |
| publisher | Department of English Language and Literature |
| publisherStr | Department of English Language and Literature |
| record_format | dspace |
| source_str | UCTD — University of Cape Town Open Access Repository |
| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/19568 Some elements of modern poetic technique Meyer, Sandra Joy Beatty, Michael Bibliography: pages 243-256. This thesis sets out to discover what techniques are available to the contemporary poet and in what way they are unique to the poetic tradition. The standpoint taken is that of a poet situated in the Western cultural and poetic tradition and a poetics is endorsed that holds that poems may be the site of evaluation, specifically in terms of technique. The thesis excludes detailed consideration of historical and political contexts. The method of research used is analysis of actual works by modern poets, within the context of poetics and primary documentation by poets themselves on their technique. The thesis is divided into three sections. The section on rhyme discusses whether the modern poet should use rhyme and describes methods used to develop the technique. The section on diction describes traditional modes of rhetoric, including levels of style and figures, and investigates contemporary rhetorical and alternative strategies. The final section researches the use of imagery, symbols and tropes, with particular reference to metaphor. The study draws conclusions about the complex possibilities in rhyme, the relevance of rhetoric and the role of the imagination in transforming the image. 2016-05-11T08:04:00Z 2016-05-11T08:04:00Z 1995 Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19568 eng application/pdf Department of English Language and Literature Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Meyer, Sandra Joy Some elements of modern poetic technique |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Some elements of modern poetic technique |
| title_full | Some elements of modern poetic technique |
| title_fullStr | Some elements of modern poetic technique |
| title_full_unstemmed | Some elements of modern poetic technique |
| title_short | Some elements of modern poetic technique |
| title_sort | some elements of modern poetic technique |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19568 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT meyersandrajoy someelementsofmodernpoetictechnique |