Expansion of Poetic Atmosphere through the Variation of Rhythm and Its Patterns
Guo Yon · Journal of Sichuan International Studies University · 2009
The rhythm of English poetry,as well as its patterns,is capable of expressing various types of moods and emotions in an attempt to thicken and romance poetic atmosphere.Its diversity and variety reflect the expansion of poetic atmosphere beyond words.Based on some theory from cognitive poetics,this paper finds a certain,cultural and psychological relation between poetic rhythm and atmosphere by analyzing William Wordsworth's famous poems as evidence.But this relation does not have any corresponding rule between the given rhythm and atmosphere and thus changes with the change of poets and poems,nor does it have any regularity between the variation,of rhythm units within rhythm patterns,and the expansion of poetic atmosphere.