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Language of poetry.
The first substyle is verse. Its first differentiating property is its orderly form, which is based mainly on the rhythmic and phonetic arrangement of the utterances. The rhythmic aspect calls forth syntactical and semantic peculiarities which also fall into a more or less strict orderly arrangement. Both the syntactical and semantic aspects of the poetic substyle may be defined as compact, for they are held in check by rhythmic patterns. Syntactically this brevity is shown in elliptical and fragmentary sentences, in detached constructions, in inversion, asyndeton and other syntactical peculiarities. Lexical and syntactical peculiarities, together with those just analysed, will present the substyle as a stylistic entity. Among the lexical peculiarities of verse the first to be mentioned is imagery, which being the generic feature of the belles-lettres style assumes in poetry a compressed form: it is rich in associative power, frequent in occurrence and varied in methods and devices of materialization. We here define imagery as a use of language media which will create a sensory perception of an abstract notion by arousing certain associations between the general and the particular, the abstract and the concrete, the conventional and the factual. It is hardly possible to under-estimate the significance of imagery in the belles-lettres style of language.
Date: 2015-01-29; view: 3432
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