Anyone who has read Frost's letters and essays is familiar with the theme of 'sentence sounds' and 'the sound of sense', Frost's contribution to modern poetics. Doubtless, both critical idea and poetic practice derive from Wordsworth; they are an extension of the desire to write with the material of the spoken idiom. And in his best poems Frost exemplifies again and again the miraculous wedding of speech and metrical line.
Sunday, January 02, 2022
Sound and sense …
… PN Review Print and Online Poetry Magazine - Robert Frost Corrupted - Donald Hall - PN Review 30. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
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