Sentences with phrase «blank verse»
In lines of simple blank verse, a young girl describes spending time in her father's record store and observing the various customers who shop for the dance music they love.
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One of Boff's most powerful books is Way of the Cross — Way of Justice (Orbis, 1980) Written in blank verse, it is a series of meditations on the stations of the cross, a traditional exercise of individualistic Catholic piety that Boff transforms into a communal exercise as well.
In loose blank verse akin to Milton's in Paradise Regained, Logue marshals all the imaginative resources available to an educated, sentient person at the end of the twentieth century.
I teach free or blank verse forms that have no rhyming patterns and no special rules about numbers of lines or line breaks.
About 13 definitions of key literary terms such as blank verse, hyperbole, iambic pentameter, soliloquy and oxymoron.
Written in English and Arabic, the tight blank verse contains just enough detail for readers to imagine Rama's journey with tangible immediacy: «a river of strangers in search of a place / to be free, to love, and laugh... / A river of people in search of peace.»
As an example, for an installation titled «Intimacy» at Articulate Project Space in 2010, McGreevy describes how words are used to play with open - ended blank verse, verse without structural lines and rhythm.
Poetry Foundation Poems for children on holidays and nature, from different countries and regions, and in blank verse or rhymed stanzas are featured on this website, along with resources for teachers and parents.
When Milton begins his epic Paradise Lost, «Of Man's First Disobedience, and the Fruit,» he violates the iambic pentameter» the sole rule of his blank verse» with the word «Disobedience» in the very first line.
Such poetry is a throwback to early Romanticism — but without the shapely forms of its lyrics or stately measure of its blank verse meditations.
His talent for decadent menace and her gift for wounding sorrow deliver a poetic effect even when they use contemporary cadence on the blank verse.
Wissinger tells the story of their excursion through a series of cleverly crafted poems, mixing sophisticated forms, including rondel, kyrielle and blank verse, with a kid - friendly idiom and plenty of humor.
Duchamp's experiments — subtle, shape - shifting correspondences of the late French Symbolist strain — somehow catalyzed a group of individuals whose varied approaches, taken together, resonate more with the home - grown yet visionary, blank verse of Walt Whitman.