Vol.1 (01) - Charging Poetry with Meaning

Charging Poetry with Meaning

With a few words from Ezra Pound

Ferrick Gray

Poetically Speaking

Volume 1, Issue 1

Ways to Group Poetry

How would you group different styles of poetry? It seems that there are a whole host of ways of doing this. As we may suspect, as many ways as there are individuals. There will be three types of poetry, regardless of your method. Sure, there are!

One such general manner is to group it according to formality. The use of formal here means structured verse. Though not at all the well-dressèd-ness of the matter, it could well be. This is one of my preferred methods.

Vol.1 (6) - An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

Being the Prologue to the Satires

Ferrick Gray

Working with Pope

Volume 1, Issue 6

Version by the University Tutorial Press Ltd, Foxton 1950

What This Is and Is Not.

In a similar fashion to other analyses, this review will only consider metrical variations in the verses. However, the common substitution of a trochee for an iamb at the start of a verse will not be analyzed here. Some of Pope’s verses are what we call feminine, but I have not included all of them since many do not qualify as a metrical variation.

Pre-reading will always bring certain words to light as being slightly troublesome. However, this only occurs if the reader is intent on maintaining or forcing a pure iambic verse. In some cases, this is not possible. The metrical accent and speech stress do not align and give the reading a very unnatural sound and rhythm.