Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems EndIn Poetic Closure, distinguished literary scholar Barbara Herrnstein Smith explores the provocative question: How do poems end? To answer it, Smith examines numerous individual poems and examples of common poetic forms in order to reveal the relationship between closure and the overall structure and integrity of a poem. First published in 1968, Smith’s book remains essential reading in poetic theory. |
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... Closural Allusions V Thematic Devices : Unqualified Assertion VI The Poetic Coda 151 151 158 166 172 182 186 5 Further Aspects and Problems of Closure I Epigram and Epigrammatic II Failures of Closure III Closure and Anti - Closure in ...
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Contents
1 Introduction | 1 |
2 Formal Structure and Closure | 38 |
3 Thematic Structure and Closure | 96 |
4 Special Terminal Features | 151 |
5 Further Aspects and Problems of Closure | 196 |
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