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25 janvier 2022
- doi: 10.4000/books.editionsulm.3200
- isbn: 9782728806164
- eisbn: 9782728809660
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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mélancolie dance Leave’s of grass Fitful rhythms poésie et démocratie LIT004020 Literature American DSBSujets proches
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Lacy Rumsey, « Whitman’s Fitful Rhythms », Éditions Rue d’Ulm, ID : 10.4000/books.editionsulm.3200
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Like many poets, Whitman prefers, in his published remarks on rhythm and meter, analogy to precise explanation. In consequence, these remarks offer relatively little help to readers who seek to understand the rhythms of Whitman’s own poetry. A well-known example is the following statement, from the 1855 preface to Leaves of Grass: The rhyme and uniformity of perfect poems show the free growth of metrical laws and bud from them as unerringly and loosely as lilacs or roses on a bush, and take s...