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Introduction to Literature Unit 9 Poetic Diction Diction S. T. Coleridge: Prose is the combination of the best words; Poetry is “the best words in the best order.” T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding In the right phraseor the right sentence, every word is at home,taking its place to support the others. The complete consort dancing together Edgar Degas and Stephen Mallarme Poet vs. painter Different media Words are not concrete Concrete and General T. S. Eliot: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” I have measured out my life with coffee spoon 王安石《泊船瓜洲》: 京口瓜洲一水间, 钟山只隔数重山。 春风又绿江南岸，明月何时照我还. Particularity: a highly valued quality in poetry T. E. Hulme: reproduce the exact curve of things Ezra Pound: go in fear of abstraction /direct treatment of the “thing,” whether subjective or objective T. S. Eliot: represent thoughts as directly as the odour of a rose W.C. Williams: to catch the “thingness” of the objects Thomas Nashe (1567-1601) Beauty is but a flower Which wrinkles will devour; Brightness falls from the air, Queens have died young and fair, Dust hath closed Helen’s eye. I am sick, I must die: Lord, have mercy on us! Poem and its Meaning What does a poem say? Message behind the literal sense Profound meaning and significance It can be content to remain on the surface This is just to say Plums in an icebox For breakfast the following morning The Red Wheelbarrow The wheelbarrow The red color The white chicken The glaze Metamorphosis The wind The cock-robin The leaves The rain The streetlamps The worm Sept, Oct, Nov. Formal and Informal Archaism: thou →you (s) thy →your quoth → mead → Bacchus → Fleecy care → Literary words: bard →poet foe →enemy woe → yonder → behold → The 18th Neoclassicism Apply thy engine to the spongy door Set Bacchus from its glassy prison free Eternal blessings on his shade attend Uncork the bottle and pour out the wine God bless his soul Two examples: Shakespeare Hughes In me thou see’st the twilight of such