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	Poetry Encyclopedia Article @ Beheld.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Poetic diction describes the manner in which language is used and refers not only to the sound but also to the underlying meaning and its interaction with sound and form.
		Many languages and poetic forms have very specific poetic dictions, to the point where separate grammars and dialects are used specifically for poetry.
		Sonnets are particularly associated with love poetry, and often use a poetic diction heavily based on vivid imagery, but the twists and turns associated with the move from octave to sestet and to final couplet make them a useful and dynamic form for many subjects.
	www.beheld.net /encyclopedia/Poetry (4201 words)

	Poetic diction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Poetic diction is the term used to refer to the linguistic style, the vocabulary, and the metaphors used in the writing of poetry.
		The first writer to discuss poetic diction in the Western tradition was Aristotle (384 BC—322 BC).
		In his Poetics, he stated that the perfect style for writing poetry was one that was clear without meanness.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Poetic_diction (1462 words)

	elements of literature: word choice
		Diction shows allegiances, and allegiances are what you must bear in mind when submitting work to magazines and competitions.
		Diction or word choice is a ground fought over by the contending schools of poetry, and there is no final arbiter.
		The poetic diction of the eighteenth century, though much derided today, was an attempt to remove contemporary and irrelevant associations of words and so release the full emphasis of their primary meanings.
	www.poetrymagic.co.uk /wordchoice.html (728 words)

	Engl 201:022 Poetic Terms
		Formal diction consists of a dignified, impersonal, and elevated use of language; it follows the rules of syntax exactly and is often characterized by complex words and lofty tone.
		Poetic diction refers to the way poets sometimes employ an elevated diction that deviates significantly from the common speech and writing of their time, choosing words for their supposedly inherent poetic qualities.
		Dramatic monologue A type of lyric poem in which a character (the speaker) addresses a distinct but silent audience imagined to be present in the poem in such a way as to reveal a dramatic situation and, often unintentionally, some aspect of his or her temperament or personality.
	classweb.gmu.edu /sweaver1/poetterms.htm (2526 words)

	Aristotle - Poetics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		On the same principle, even if a writer in his poetic imitation were to combine all metres, as Chaeremon did in his Centaur, which is a medley composed of metres of all kinds, we should bring him too under the general term poet.
		Moreover, it was not till late that the short plot was discarded for one of greater compass, and the grotesque diction of the earlier satyric form for the stately manner of Tragedy.
		As to that poetic imitation which is narrative in form and employs a single metre, the plot manifestly ought, as in a tragedy, to be constructed on dramatic principles.
	www.classicallibrary.org /aristotle/poetics/index.htm (13409 words)

	diction or word choice in poetry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Diction shows allegiances and allegiances are what poetry editors and adjudicators are always concerned about.
		The poetic diction of the eighteenth century, though much derided today, was an attempt to remove contemporary and irrelevant associations of words and so release the full potential of their primary meanings.
		At the other end of the spectrum lies the poetry of Geoffrey Hill, where a Christian and guilt-saturated diction may be baffling to a readership lacking scholarship, or indeed the interest, in the western intellectual tradition.
	www.textetc.com /elements/diction.html (1748 words)

	UPNE - Poetic Diction: Owen Barfield
		Poetic Diction, first published in 1928, begins by asking why we call a given grouping of words “poetry” and why these arouse “aesthetic imagination” and produce pleasure in a receptive reader.
		Returning always to this personal experience of poetry, Owen Barfield at the same time seeks objective standards of criticism and a theory of poetic diction in broader philosophical considerations on the relation of world and thought.
		His profound musings explore concerns fundamental to the understanding and appreciation of poetry, including the nature of metaphor, poetic effect, the difference between verse and prose, and the essence of meaning.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~upne/0-8195-6026-X.html (214 words)

	Poetic Diction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This kind of poetic diction refers only to pre-twentieth-century poetry, "for modern verse makes no use of a special vocabulary of this kind.
		Poetic diction also can mean "the sum of the words used by any single poet, or set of poets" (48).
		Poetic diction can also mean the sum of the favorite words used by a particular poet.
	www.victorianweb.org /victorian/previctorian/tech/diction.html (366 words)

	DICTION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In some pre-modern poetry, the high or "hieratic" style was used extensively, and the language of poetry was often ornate and self-consciously "poetic"; as the eighteenth-century poet Thomas Gray remarked "the language of the age is never the language of poetry".
		If we were to generalize about the diction employed in the two poems, we might say that belongs to the vernacular tradition in modern poetry, to the somewhat less popular formalist tradition.
		"Poetic diction" and modern language Poets of the Neoclassical era, who shared Thomas Gray's belief that "the language of the age is never the language of poetry", used a specialized kind of poetic diction.
	web.mala.bc.ca /guppy/crew410/diction.htm (1058 words)

	WWW Virtual Library: Poetry, in Sri Lanka
		We have to rediscover and reactivate the springs of that poetic diction, cleanse the stagnant pool with the freshwater and let the river flow again.
		What though is relevant here, is not so much the poetic value of this marvellous collection, but the attempt by the poet to carve a poetic diction out of the rhythms and expressions of contemporary speech.
		The second was for the orthodox ‘cultured’ poetic diction, with its ornate figures, where ‘implied meaning’ - vakrokthi - was the soul.
	www.lankalibrary.com /books/poetry.html (4626 words)

	Poem Encyclopedia Article @ Accorded.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Goblin Market used complex poetic diction in nursery rhyme form: "We must not look at goblin men, / We must not buy their fruits: / Who knows upon what soil they fed / Their hungry thirsty roots?"">
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		It thus had a more informal poetic diction.
	www.accorded.org /encyclopedia/Poem (7074 words)

	Taming the Chaos - English Poetic Diction Theory Since the Renaissance - Emerson R. Marks
		This topic has been the subject of debate among scholars, poets, and critics for centuries, and continues to be a notoriously thorny issue today.
		In an effort to define the mysterious and attractive power of poetic discourse, Emerson Marks undertakes a comparative evaluative exposition of successive attempts to explain the phenomenon.
		A long-lasting and ambitious study of poetic language, Taming the Chaos examines the main attempts by critics since the Renaissance to elucidate the crucial problem of poetic language.
	wsupress.wayne.edu /literature/littheory/markstc.htm (185 words)

	poetic - definition by dict.die.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		poetic adj 1: of or relating to poetry; "poetic works"; "a poetic romance" [syn: poetical] 2: characterized by romantic imagery; "Turner's vision of the rainbow...was poetic" 3: of or relating to poets; "poetic insight" 4: characteristic of or befitting poetry; "poetic diction" [syn: poetical]
		Of or pertaining to poetry; suitable for poetry, or for writing poetry; as, poetic talent, theme, work, sentiments.
		Expressed in metrical form; exhibiting the imaginative or the rhythmical quality of poetry; as, a poetical composition; poetical prose.
	dict.die.net /poetic (81 words)

	elements_of_poetry
		Diction: Like all good writers, poets are keenly aware of diction, their choice of words.
		Although poetic language is often more intensely charged than ordinary speech, the words used in poetry are not necessarily different from everyday speech.
		Informal diction is evident in Miranda's "The One that Got Away." Another form of diction is jargon, defined as the words used by specific groups.
	www.wsu.edu /~hughesc/elements_of_poetry.htm (2531 words)

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		On the same principle, even if a writer in his poetic imitation were to combine all meters, as Chaeremon did in his Centaur, which is a medley composed of meters of all kinds, we should bring him too under the general term poet.
		POETICS23 XXIII As to that poetic imitation which is narrative in form and employs a single meter, the plot manifestly ought, as in a tragedy, to be constructed on dramatic principles.
		For, conversely, character and thought are merely obscured by a diction that is over-brilliant POETICS25 XXV With respect to critical difficulties and their solutions, the number and nature of the sources from which they may be drawn may be thus exhibited.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/aristotle-poeticsi.txt (12950 words)

	Poetry
		Rhyme at the end of lines is the basis of a number of common poetic forms, such as ballads, sonnets and rhyming couplets.
		By contrast, the chief device of Biblical poetry in ancient Hebrew was parallelism, a rhetorical structure in which successive lines reflected each other in grammatical structure, sound structure, notional content, or all three; which lent itself to antiphonal or call-and-response performance.
		The Greek's practice of singing hymns in large choruses gave rise in the sixth century BC to dramatic verse, and to the practice of writing poetic plays for performance in their theatres.
	www.clipart.teleactivities.com /poetry/poetry.html (1644 words)

	The Valve - A Literary Organ \| A Note on Poetics
		Utterances like “O wild west wind!” are “the pure embodiment of poetic pretention: of the subject’s claim that in his verse he is not merely an empirical poet, a writer of verse, but the embodiment of poetic tradition and of the spirit of poesy.
		Keats’ apostrophizing in his time possibly was comparable to one or the other of these two superficially similar things: either an artificially beautiful diction that was in no way embarrassing, or a mimicry of the way a certain privileged niche class affected a specific diction to seem more authentic to themselves.
		The issue is diction, an inflated level of language, not the actual use of a remark addressed to a listener not present—if we go through a poetry anthology, we can probably find an apostrophe on many pages, in eras of high and low fashion in diction.
	www.thevalve.org /go/valve/article/a_note_on_poetics (6295 words)

	Translation of the Elder Edda Intro...
		While the meter and diction of eddaic poetry are relatively simple, skaldic verse is composed in a variety of complex forms and employs a larger number of involved metaphors, or Kenningar.
		The similarity of meter and repetition of diction throughout the Germanic poetic traditions are evidences of the striking stability of traditional poetry, even before writing 'fixed' such forms.
		Poetic composition of riddles was principally an exercise of scholastic wit throughout the Middle Ages.
	www.ealdriht.org /talyorauburn.html (5943 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 02.03.13: Review of Lyne
		In the first chapter, "Vergil's Diction: Context and Definitions", he explains "Poetry delights in a poetic diction, language strange to ordinary speech, and evocative of experience other than our own.
		On page 10 he asks why a word should be prosaic rather than poetical and answers "Prosaic words are often, I think, denotative rather than connotative, and are limited in their designation rather than generous and suggestive.
		Poetry, a suggestive medium, naturally inclines to words that are rich with implications." In the next sub-section "Poetical words and poetic diction" (pp.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1991/02.03.13.html (1556 words)

	Alibris: Diction
		Since the publication of the first edition in 1964, Phonetic Readings of Songs and Arias has served singers, teachers of singing, and students of lyric diction as a guide to the correct pronunciation of songs in foreign languages.
		A Handbook of Diction for Singers is a complete guide to achieving professional levels of diction in Italian, German, and French, the major languages of the classical vocal repertory.
		Written for English-speaking singers, it is an ideal textbook for students of diction and is also invaluable for voice teachers, vocal coaches, and conductors.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Diction (539 words)

	When we start explaining the language of famous scientists as examples of ‘poetic diction’, it may well seem that ...
		When we start explaining the language of famous scientists as examples of ‘poetic diction’, it may well seem that the ordinary meaning of that literary phrase has been inflated beyond the bounds of reason.
		If we must have a fundamental dichotomy, how much more real it is (though even this is properly a division of function rather than of person) to divide man as knower, from man in his other capacity as doer.
		If the poetic is unduly ascendant, behold the mystic or the madman, unable to grasp the reality of percepts at all - a being still resting, as it were, in the bosom of gods or demons - not yet man, man in the fullness of his stature, at all.
	www.personal.rdg.ac.uk /~spsolley/barf_poetry_science.html (519 words)

	EMLS S.I. 1 (April 1997: 4.1-14): Did Shakespeare Consciously Use Archaic English? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The distinctions of old, poetic, and regional seem inclusive and blurred here but, perhaps, all of these are inter-related aspects in the diachronic development of an archaism.
		Indeed, by the end of the sixteenth century, "old words" were associated increasingly with poetic diction, especially in bible translations, or classified as Chaucerisms.
		In some instances archaic tonality may just be a matter of recognizing that the status of old words is based on their relation to the standard idiom by the way they survive in that idiom as fossilized phrases.
	www.humanities.ualberta.ca /emls/si-01/si-01davidson.html (2877 words)

	virtuaLit: Elements of Poetry
		The basic question to ask about vocabulary is "Is it simple or complex?" The basic question to ask about syntax is "Is it ordinary or unusual?" Taken together, these two elements make up diction.
		When we speak of a "level of diction," we might be misleading, because it's certainly possible to use "plain" language in a complicated way, especially in poetry, and it's equally possible to use complicated language in a simple way.
		It might help to think of diction as a web rather than a level: There's typically something deeper than a surface meaning to consider, so poetic diction is, by definition, complex.
	bcs.bedfordstmartins.com /virtualit/poetry/diction_def.html (143 words)

	The Poetics by Aristotle
		XXII (Poetic Diction continued.) How Poetry combines elevation of language with perspicuity.
		There is another art which imitates by means of language alone, and that either in prose or verse--which, verse, again, may either combine different metres or consist of but one kind--but this has hitherto been without a name.
		With respect to critical difficulties and their solutions, the number and nature of the sources from which they may be drawn may be thus exhibited.
	www.turksheadreview.com /library/texts/aristotle-poetics.html (13212 words)

	WebPlay
		A hallmark of Emily Dickinson's poetic diction is her use of polysemy, the interplay of multiple meanings.
		One of the known polysemic resources available to Dickinson in her poetic craft was Noah Webster's 1844 American Dictionaryof the English Language.
		In Webster's dictionary entries, Dickinson found a catalogue of synonyms, antonyms, hyponyms,definitions, etymologies, and citations that provided rich lexical texture for her unique poetic diction.
	linguistics.byu.edu /faculty/hallenc/EDLexicon/webplay.html (983 words)

	Services
		Poets’ attitudes toward these poetic ideals from antiquity are the basis of each new movement.
		twisted and distorted the idea of poetic subjects at the time; he did the same with poetic form and language.
		poetic forms to discover or create a new and contemporary means of personal expression.
	www.poeticon.com /chapterone.html (6528 words)

	Poems at the Poetry Free-for-all - Poetic diction, anyone? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Are little dabs of poetic diction, handled properly, really so bad in modern poetry?
		I'm not talking about rank beginners who pepper their verse with "thous" and "thees" and "dost" and "doth", I'm talking about seasoned writers choosing to use what you might call "high-blown" language, in small doses, to elevate the tone of their poems a tad.
		02-12-2002 11:08 AM Seems to me you can do anything you like with diction as long as you take your audience with you - that is, as long as you set it up correctly.
	www.everypoet.org /pffa/printthread.php?t=4647 (164 words)

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