Caesura презентация

Definition Caesura – a pause, which is a rhythmical pause in a poetic line or a sentence Poets indicate such a pause with a parallel symbol thus: ||

Слайд 1Caesura
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Слайд 2Definition
Caesura – a pause, which is a rhythmical pause in

a poetic line or a sentence

Poets indicate such a pause with a parallel symbol thus: ||


Слайд 3Medial Caesura
I loked on my left half || as þe lady

me taughte
And was war of a woman || worþeli ycloþed.
– William Langland “Piers Ploughman”


Слайд 4Initial Caesura
Dead ! || One of them shot by the sea

in the east… What art can a woman be good at?  Oh, vain! – Elizabeth Barrett Browning “Mother and Poet”


Слайд 5Terminal Caesura
No voice says “My mother” again to me. || What

! You think Guido forgot ? – Elizabeth Barrett Browning “Mother and Poet”

Слайд 6Types of caesura Feminine Caesura
• Feminine Caesura = occurs after a non

-stressed and short syllable in a poetic line

• It is for you we speak, || not for ourselves: You are abused || and by some putter-on That will be damn’d for’t; || would I knew the villain, I would land-damn him. || Be she honour-flaw’d, I have three daughters; || the eldest is eleven – (Shakespeare “The Winter Tale”)



Слайд 7Types of caesura Masculine Caesura
Masculine pause occurs after a long or accented

syllable in a line

Of reeds and stalk-crickets, || fiddling the dank air, Lacing his boots with vines, || steering glazed beetles - Derek Walcott “The Bounty”


Слайд 8Function of Caesura
It breaks the monotonous rhythm of a line and

forces readers to focus on the meaning of the phrase preceding the caesura
It creates a dramatic or ominous effect
Adds an emotional and theatrical touch to a line
Helps convey depth of the sentiments

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