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Term Tuesday
  • A discussion of literary and rhetorical terms

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Enjambment
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Definitions
  • When the units of sense in a passage of poetry
    don't coincide with the lines, and the sense runs
    on from one line to another, the lines are said
    to be enjambed

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In class example by Henry Vaughan
  • With that some cried, "Away!" Straight IObeyed,
    and ledFull east, a fair, fresh field could
    spySome called it Jacob's bed,A virgin soil
    which noRude feet ere trod,Where, since he
    stepped there, only goProphets and friends of
    God.

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These lines are enjambed
  • With that some cried, "Away!" Straight IObeyed,
    and ledFull east, a fair, fresh field could
    spySome called it Jacob's bed,A virgin soil
    which noRude feet ere trod,Where, since he
    stepped there, only goProphets and friends of
    God.

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Purpose
  • Pulls the reader through the poem
  • Quickens the pace
  • Sounds more natural than a pause every five feet.

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Literary Example T. S. Eliots The Waste Land
  • April is the cruelest month, breedingLilacs out
    of the dead land, mixingMemory and desire,
    stirringDull roots with spring rain.Winter kept
    us warm, coveringEarth in forgetful snow,
    feeding A little life with dried

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End-stopped
  • This is the opposite of enjambed
  • The line is stopped at the end with a mark of
    punctuation.

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Example of End stopped
  • Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
  • Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
  • Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
  • And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
  • (Shakespeare, Sonnet 18)

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Writing your own
  • Write a 4 line poem about the finding yourself
    with a partner. Create two versions of the poem.
    One is end-stopped, one is enjambed.

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Mrs. OBriens Finding Herself-enjambed
  • Not finding yourself at the age of
  • Thirty-four is a disgrace! Willy Loman
  • Shouts from his play to me today. I at
  • Forty-one keep searching.

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Mrs. OBriens Finding herself--end-stopped
  • I think of all the people that Ive been
  • You only see the shell that holds them in.
  • A daddys girl farming at age ten,
  • At twenty--wife, at thirty--mother hen.
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