Spreading and Extending of Poetic Atmosphere through the Variations of Meter and Rhythm
Guo Yong · Zhongnan Linye Keji Daxue xuebao · 2008
Rhythm is expressive beyond words.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.Based on some theory from cognitive poetics,this paper finds a certain,cultural and psychological relation between poetic rhythm and poetic 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 variations,of rhythm units within rhythm patterns,and the spreading and extending of poetic atmosphere.