Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 8 AIL 0724 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Hughes and the Line Break
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The idea
The anchor's free-verse chapter uses Hughes's poem about rivers, published nineteen twenty-one. Its lines run to markedly different lengths, and the breaks fall where a speaking voice would pause. Line length is doing the work a metre would otherwise do.
In practice
Breaks where a voice would pause.
Where people slip
Length replaces metre here.
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