Interpreting Patterns of Sound
Paul Simpson · 2025
Unit A4 established a set of basic principles for the analysis of metre and rhythm in poetry. Continuing this theme, the present unit will raise and explore some issues concerning the significance of patterns of sound for stylistic analysis. In particular, this unit should encourage us to think about how, as stylisticians, we make connections between, on the one hand, the physical properties of the sounds represented within a text and, on the other, the non-linguistic phenomena situated outside a text to which these sounds relate.