American Literature / Unit 14 AML 1321 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Frost's Form: The Sound of Sense
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The idea
Frost argued that a poem's music comes from the sound of ordinary speech played against a regular meter, so that a reader hears both the sentence and the beat. He called free verse playing tennis with the net down, which is his whole position in a sentence.
In practice
Speech, heard against a meter.
Where people slip
The tennis remark is an argument, not a joke.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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