Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 19 AIL 1815 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Hughes and the Line Break
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The idea
Unit eight worked the anchor's free-verse chapter: Hughes's poem about rivers, published nineteen twenty-one, whose lines run to different lengths and break where a voice would pause. Line length is doing the work metre would otherwise do.
In practice
Breaks where a voice would pause.
Where people slip
Unit eight already worked it.
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