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Poetic Diction is a style of writing in poetry which encompasses vocabulary, phrasing, and grammatical usage. Along with syntax, poetic diction functions in the setting the tone, mood, and atmosphere of a poem to convey the poet's intention. Poetic devices shape a poem and its meanings.
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The poem is a fable and like most fables it has a moral.Various themes are intertwined. The poem can be seen as exposing the role of critics towards any fresh talent; it can be read as exploitation of a simple, genuine talent by a personal gain or as a poem about a jealous person who does not let real talent flourish by discouraging and finally eliminating it.
Iambic pentameter is the most common meter in English poetry. It was first introduced into English by Chaucer in the 14th century on the basis of French and Italian models. It is used in several major English poetic forms, including blank verse, the heroic couplet, and some of the traditionally rhymed stanza forms.
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Enjambment has a long history in poetry. Homer used the technique, and it is the norm for alliterative verse where rhyme is unknown. [9] In the 32nd Psalm of the Hebrew Bible enjambment is unusually conspicuous. [10] It was used extensively in England by Elizabethan poets for dramatic and narrative verses, before giving way to closed couplets.
Poetic contractions are contractions of words found in poetry but not commonly used in everyday modern English. Also known as elision or syncope , these contractions are usually used to lower the number of syllables in a particular word in order to adhere to the meter of a composition. [ 1 ]
This makes the caesura arguably more important to the Old English verse than it was to Latin or Greek poetry. In Latin or Greek poetry, the caesura could be suppressed for effect in any line. In the alliterative verse that is shared by most of the oldest Germanic languages, the caesura is an ever-present and necessary part of the verse form itself.