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Ben Lerner
desultory
(en)
(adjective) marked by lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose / (adjective) not connected with the main subject / (adjective) disappointing in progress, performance, or quality
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Reading in my admittedly desultory way across the centuries
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Reading in my admittedly desultory way across the centuries
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prosody
(en)
(noun) the study of versification / (noun) the systematic study of metrical structure / (noun) a particular system, theory, or style of versification / (noun) the rhythmic and intonational aspect of language
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ekphrasis
(en)
a rhetorical term originally taught to Greek students as a way of bringing the experience of an object to a listener or reader through highly detailed descriptive writing
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virgule
(en)
(noun) slash
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The “ / ”—the technical term is “virgule”—is the conventional way of indicating a line break when verse is quoted in prose.
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The “ / ”—the technical term is “virgule”—is the conventional way of indicating a line break when verse is quoted in prose.
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jeremiad
(en)
(noun) a long, mournful complaint or lamentation; a list of woes
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Hating on actual poems, then, is often an ironic if sometimes unwitting way of expressing the persistence of the utopian ideal of Poetry, and the jeremiads in that regard are defenses, too.
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Hating on actual poems, then, is often an ironic if sometimes unwitting way of expressing the persistence of the utopian ideal of Poetry, and the jeremiads in that regard are defenses, too.
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3 years, 5 months ago