free verse
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | Date: 2008
free verse
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n.
poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.Also called vers libre.
© The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English 2008, originally published by Oxford University Press 2008.
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Translating free verse: two poems from Jaccottet's 'On voit.'.
Journal of European Studies; 12/1/1998; Scott, Clive; 787 words
; One might argue that the peculiar challenge of free verse lies in its being, at one and the same time, possibly the strictest and possibly the most accommodating of mediums. It can be seen as strict in that, historically, one of its principal raisons d'etre is its inimitability: the chant profond
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Disorderly Orders: Free Verse, Chaos, and the Tradition.
The Southern Review; 9/22/1998; LAKE, PAUL; 787 words
; At present, the term free verse is used to describe a multitude of quite different and even contradictory strategies, several of which may be employed in the same poem. If metrical poetry can be defined as verse in which strong and weak sound-elements are patterned by numerical rules into
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Tie or open shirt?
The Spectator; 2/7/2004; Anonymous; 162 words
; In Competition No. 2326 you were invited to write a poem either in free verse mocking rhymed, metrical verse or in conventional verse mocking free verse. It's Larkin's team versus Hughes's. On one side stand Frost ('Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down') and Auden ('I cannot
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Written from the heart: Free verse gives special beat to author's book.
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 4/1/2004; Campbell, Janis; 721 words
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World Literature Today; 9/22/1997; Glenn, Jerry; 345 words
; Resolutely refusing to be seduced by the vicissitudes of the literary scene or the literary establishment, Klaus Demus continues on the course he has followed for many years. His themes are universal: man and nature, time and space, transience and eternity, and, unapologetically, beauty;
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