 | András Horn - 1998 - 212 pagina’s
...zweite eine langsame, mühsame Bewegung metrisch „nochmals sagt", die vierte Zeile dagegen Flinkheit: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line, too, labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th" unbending corn, and skims along the main.... | |
 | Matthew Campbell - 1999 - 292 pagina’s
...'harshness' by art: 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence. The sound must seem an echo to the sense: Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows. And the...throw, The line too labours and the words move slow: (Essay on Criiicism, 364-71)' In a polemic designed to rescue metrical matters from technical prescription,... | |
 | Samuel Alexander - 2000 - 324 pagina’s
...the stars Eastward were sparkling clear, and in the west The orange sky of evening died away. 1 Eg: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours and the words move slow. or The moan of doves in immemorial elms And murmur of innumerable bees. * The remark comes from Mr.... | |
 | Shira Wolosky Weiss - 2001 - 248 pagina’s
...drags its slow length along," Pope shows how to do it right, imitating his subjects in his sounds: "But when loud Surges lash the sounding Shore, / The hoarse, rough Verse shou'd like the Torrent roar." At issue here is the poetic effect of connecting a particular rhythm... | |
 | Mark W. Edwards - 2004 - 210 pagina’s
...Among those primarily concerned with English poetry, Fussell (1979: 36), speaking of Pope's famous "When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw...| The line too labours, and the words move slow," notes, besides the spondaic-for-iambic substitutions, "the contribution of cacaphony (that is, the... | |
 | Neil King, Sarah King - 2002 - 214 pagina’s
...of the sound echoing the sense (onomatopoeia is sometimes called "echoism") and gives as an example: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw The line too labors, and the words move slow open couplet: a couplet in verse where the sense is not complete by... | |
 | Ruth Katz, Ruth HaCohen - 2003 - 462 pagina’s
...specific Difference hetween the ancient and modern Compositions, and consequently their Excellency, s. "Soft is the Strain when zephyr gently Blows, And the smooth Stream in smoother numhers Flows; But when loud Surges lash the sounding Shore, The hoarse, rough Verse should like the... | |
 | R. B. Serjeant, R. L. Bidwell - 2005 - 208 pagina’s
...Wolf, thou wailest. Surely these lives of ours, thine and my own, go empty, robbed of prosperity. 72 * When Ajax strives, some Rock's vast Weight to throw. The Line too labours, and the Words move slow. Alexander Pope, An essay on criticism, 11. 370-1. t Not so, when swift Camilla scours the Plain, Flies... | |
 | Peter Childs, Roger Fowler - 2006 - 280 pagina’s
...in pronunciation). All are exemplified in Alexander Pope's famous exercise 'An Essay in Criticism': When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flie o'er th'unbending corn, and skims along the main.... | |
 | Ernest Pertwee - 2006 - 281 pagina’s
...appearance together.' Note the melody and strength in these four lines from Pope's Essay on Criticism : ' Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the...hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar' The following excerpt, full of imagination, is by Elizabeth Barrett Browning: — ' Nothing is small... | |
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The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives... 
