In poetry,cadencedescribes the fall inpitchof theintonationof thevoice,and its modulated inflection with the rise and fall of itssound.[1]
Etymology
editFrom Middle Frenchcadence,and from Italiancadenza,and from Latincadentia,with the meaning "to fall." "
Cadence in poetry
editIn poetry cadence describes the rhythmic pacing of language to a resolution[2]and was a new idea in 1915[3]used to describe the subtle rise and fall in the natural flow and pause of ordinary speech[4]where the strong and weak beats of speech fall into a natural order[5]restoring the audible quality to poetry as a spoken art.[6]Cadence verse is non-syllabic resemblingmusicrather than older metrical poetry with a rhythmic curve containing one or more stressed accents and roughly corresponding to the necessity of breathing,[7]the cadence being more rapid and marked than in prose.[8]
Legacy
editThe idea that cadence should be substituted formetrewas at the heart of theImagistcredo according toT. E. Hulme.[9] Unrhymed cadence inVers libreis built upon 'organic rhythm,' or the rhythm of the speaking voice with its necessity for breathing, rather than upon a strict metrical system.[10] Cadence infree versecame to mean whatever the writer liked, some claiming verse and poetry had it, but prose did not, but for some it was synonymous with free verse,[11]where each poet has to find the cadence within himself.[12]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^The Chambers DictionaryChambers Harrap Publishers Ltd LondonISBN978-0550102379
- ^Glossary-The Great Modern Poets,(Michael Schmidt editor) Querus Poetry 2006ISBN9780857382467
- ^Preface toSome Imagist Poets 1915
- ^Allen Charles-Cadenced Free Verse.College English Vol 9 Dept of English, University of Arizona 1948
- ^F.S Flint.Presentation:Notes on the Art of WritingThe Chapbook II London:Poetry Bookshop,1920
- ^Lowell, AmyPoetry as a Spoken Art,The Dial 1918
- ^Lowell, AmySome Musical Analogies in Modern PoetryMusical Quarterly,6 1920
- ^Aldington, RichardFree Verse in England,The Egosit 1914
- ^Hughes, Glenn,Imagism and the Imagist,Stanford University, New York 1931
- ^Lowes, John LivingstonConventions and Revolt in PoetryHoughton Mifflin, Boston 1919
- ^Charles O. Hartman,Free Verse: An Essay on Prosody,Northwestern University Press, 1980.ISBN0-8101-1316-3
- ^Taupin, Rene,The Influence of French Symbolism on Modern American Poetry(1986),(trans. William Pratt) Ams Studies in Modern Literature,ISBN0-404-61579-1
Further reading
edit- Allen Charles-Cadenced Free Verse.College English Vol 9 Dept of English, University of Arizona 1948.
- Charles O. Hartman,Free Verse: An Essay on Prosody,Northwestern University Press, 1980.ISBN0-8101-1316-3
- Smith James HarryThe Reading of PoetryHoughton Mifflin New York 1939
External links
edit- Read 'Nocturne in a Deserted Brickyard' a cadenced poem by Carl Sandburg
- Charles Allen - Cadenced Free Verse essay
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