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The Waste Land : The Micro- and Macropoetics of Multi-Rhythmicity

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Using methods of analysis drawn from beat prosody, this chapter draws a distinction between the anisometric poems of the first part of Eliot’s career, which are based on unpredictable combinations of loose accentual-syllabic metres, and the genuinely multi-rhythmic poems that, from “Gerontion” onwards, also include strong-stress and sustainedly non-metrical passages, as well as a stress-dense accentual metre. Some effects of multi-rhythmicity are then analysed through consideration of The Waste Land. The discussion begins by considering micropoetic effects, as instanced in the rapid changes of rhythmic base in lines 19-30 of “The Burial of the Dead”. It then examines the effects of multi-rhythmicity on the experience of reading The Waste Land as a whole, and argues that the poem offers, on a rhythmic level, a combination of sameness and difference that recalls the terms of arguments sketched by Eliot in two essays of 1921, “Prose and Verse” and “Andrew Marvell.” In this way, multi-rhythmicity creates consolatory counter-pressure to The Waste Land’s bleaker aspects. Other poems considered include "Portrait of a Lady", Sweeney Agonistes, "Journey of the Magi" and Coriolan.
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halshs-04535310, version 1 (06-04-2024)

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Lacy Rumsey. The Waste Land : The Micro- and Macropoetics of Multi-Rhythmicity. Aji, Hélène; Derail, Agnès; Oudart, Clément. T.S. Eliot agoniste : lecture des poèmes, Editions Rue d'Ulm, pp.133-150, 2024, Les actes de la recherche à l'ENS. ⟨halshs-04535310⟩
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