| 单词 | caesura |
| 例句 | According to J Robert Lennon in the LRB, the "formula may be over familiar – ageing white guy takes stock of his life, and of the American Moment, during an unexpected caesura – but it works." Book reviews roundup: Family Secrets, A Hologram for the King and China's Silent Army 2013-02-08T18:50:01Z The greatest practitioners of the chapter have preferred to cast their divisions as fleeting caesuras with lingering aftereffects, scarcely memorable in their specifics but tenacious in the feeling they evoke. The Chapter: A History 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z There's a sense of arrival in line seven, but only a moment's hesitation, enacted by the caesura, the full-stop, after "up to the ridge". Poem of the week: Pier by Vona Groarke 2010-08-30T10:24:00Z It is somehow elegantly done despite the disruptive effect of caesuras and enjambment as MacBeth stretches his sentences over lines and stanza-breaks in unpredictable sweeps and lunges. Poem of the week: The God of Love by George MacBeth 2010-06-07T14:18:00Z Traditional Arabic poetry, he explained, was usually written in one of 16 meters, in balanced lines split by a caesura, and frequently employing a single end rhyme for an entire poem. A Revolutionary of Arabic Verse 2010-10-17T22:03:00Z An exclamation mark after each address to Cynara creates a perfectly natural-seeming caesura. Poem of the week: Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae by Ernest Dowson 2011-03-14T11:48:11Z The concluding statement, "here's nothing worth a smile", gains force from the caesura before it, though the tone seems a little sulky. Poem of the week: The Shortness of Life by Francis Quarles 2013-01-07T10:21:04Z And the voice is good — husky, imperious but lyrical, with the precise, signature caesuras. Theater Review: Bette Davis Stays and Stays in ‘Me and Jezebel’ 2013-07-25T02:00:01Z A closer look reveals how carefully Whittier organises the syntax over his rhythmic framework: the caesuras are nicely judged. Poem of the week: Telling the Bees by John Greenleaf Whittier 2012-06-11T16:30:08Z For a musical about a war — or more precisely, a caesura between hostilities — “All Is Calm” is a staunchly apolitical and warily genteel work. Review: In ‘All Is Calm,’ Thrilling Song in the Trenches 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z Mr. Korstvedt, the Bruckner Society president, pointed to the Fifth as an important caesura, concluding Bruckner’s earlier period with its daring fugal finale. A Long Party of Concerts to Celebrate Anton Bruckner 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z The irony is that such presentations are highly rehearsed, with each caesura calculated and every syllable stressed in advance. ‘NPR Voice’ Has Taken Over the Airwaves 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z But the third line, with its caesura before the last foot, complicates the grandfather's absence, extends his influence, and begins to restore his existence. Poem of the week: Elegy by Sidney Keyes 2013-07-15T11:42:00Z What I mean, I suppose, is that this long infatuation is now a marriage — as demanding and exasperating at times as any marriage, and with long caesuras of drudgery. The seasons of an accidental pandemic hobby farmer 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z This creates a medial caesura, splitting the line into two more or less equal halves, a technique famously employed a thousand years ago by the unknown poet who set “Beowulf” to the page. The Artists Dismantling the Barriers Between Rap and Poetry 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z If the pandemic had a musical score, that trick ending might be a caesura, shown by two parallel diagonal lines: railroad tracks, only we ran out of rail. Planet virus: seven novelists from around the world on living with the pandemic 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z Among those of a more pessimistic bent, suspicions that somewhere deep in the bowels of Westminster a press release was being composed urging people not to read anything into this cupric caesura. Brexit is a war between reason and faith, so we’ll treat it as one | Lucy Mangan 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z That is a semicolon from the heavens, you know, it’s like the most amazing caesura, to say these two things that are simultaneous and true. Craig Morgan Teicher Reads Forrest Gander 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Sometimes he pitches language headlong over his line breaks, only to halt it, in the next line, by oddly scattered caesuras and slashes. Shane McCrae’s Poems to America 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Here’s a terrible piece of evidence showing that caesura in Twitter threads can be powerful. A small defense of the Twitter thread 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z During this historical caesura, when one pope has exited the stage and another has yet to enter, why not then ask the obvious, blasphemous question? Even if they don’t follow its rules, Catholics stick with their church 2013-03-02T00:10:41Z Varied cadences and varied caesura are essential to this form of verse, otherwise the monotony is wearying to the ear. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z And though such marked violations of harmony are rare, yet there is a large proportion of lines in which the laws for the caesura observed by later poets are violated. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z These verses have a regular caesura, which, like the end of a line, carries with it the licence of a mute e. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z It’s an incredibly active act of reading: you must craft some portion of the narrative yourself, filling in the caesura. A small defense of the Twitter thread 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Other, slighter pauses fall quite variably where they will, and there is no regular breathing pause or caesura dividing the line after the second or third stress. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z The most usual places for the caesura are at the middle of the third, or the middle of the fourth foot: the former is known as the penthemimeral and the latter as hepthemimeral caesura. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z "In hindsight, it is an extremely positive caesura point." How Siemens Got Its Mojo Back 2011-01-27T16:00:00Z Both the English and the Latin lines rime at the caesura as well as at the end of the line, but this is less uniformly the rule in the English verses. Erthe Upon Erthe The Chanson de Geste, indeed, displays in its matter and style many traces of Germanic origin, but the metre with its regular iambic cadence and its rigid caesura testifies to Latin influence. A Short History of French Literature It is written in rhymed lines of rude construction, varying in length and neglecting the caesura. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" The differences in the hexameters of the Latin poets were not so remarkable, but even these varied, in various epochs, their treatment of the separate feet, and the position of the caesura. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z Otho Each line of verse has been split at the caesura. Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Even the caesura, or pause in the course of a long line, is not always easy to place. The Booklover and His Books Cases in which caesuras and grammatical breaks are inconsistent are numberless. A Practical Discourse on Some Principles of Hymn-Singing Verses in which neither of these caesuras occurs are considered faulty. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" The caesura, though generally placed near the middle, may be placed at other intervals. McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader Lines have been split at the caesura for cleaner display. Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Four lines, twelve syllables trochaic, caesura at seventh syllable. The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints On the other hand, there is often an extra light syllable before the caesura. An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway A caesura is often called masculine when it falls after a long, feminine when it falls after a short syllable. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" There is, also, in almost every line of poetry, a pause at or near its middle, which is called the caesura. McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader There is, also, another important pause, somewhere near the middle of each line, which is called the caesura or caesural pause. McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader We may now sum it up thus—trochaic verse of eight syllables, with alliteration and rhyme, a caesura in the same part of every line, and every line reiterated in parallelism. Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn I had no idea of caesura, my gestures destroyed its harmony, etc., etc. Delsarte System of Oratory Where the original poet put an effect of caesura, the translator puts an effect of rhyme; where the original poet puts an effect of rhyme, the translator puts an effect of caesura. Confessions of a Young Man There should be a marked accent upon the long syllable next preceding the caesura, and a slighter one upon that next before each of the demi-caesuras. McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader There is also a break or caesura which in five-syllable verses falls after the second syllable and in seven-syllable verses after the fourth. A Lute of Jade : selections from the classical poets of China Each line, or verse, falls into two halves, and a well-marked caesura divides each line, or verse, into two equally accented parts. The Babylonian Legends of the Creation Its pauses come with monotonous regularity at the end of the line, diversified only by an occasional break at the caesura in the third foot. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Each verse contains 21 syllables, with a caesura after the 12th. A Study of Poetry In the following examples, the caesura is marked in each line; the demi-caesura is not marked in every case. McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader The correspondence thus lost by improved caesura is partially re-established by more careful elision. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius The first half of each line ends in an unaccented syllabic—or, strictly speaking, in a syllable bearing a secondary accent; that is, each line has what is called a "ringing" caesura. The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original The continual succession of these lines without so much as an occasional change of caesura to diversify the rhythm is at times almost intolerable. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal In his use of caesuras Vergil in the Ciris resembles Catullus: both to a certain extent distrust the trochaic pause. Vergil A Biography He discountenanced on the one hand run-on lines, alexandrines, hiatus, and sequence of monosyllables; on the other, the resort to expletives and the mechanical placing of caesura. English Poets of the Eighteenth Century The caesura, which forms the chief feature in each verse, was not understood by Ennius. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Rhyming of the caesura may be regarded as accidental in most cases, but it is reproduced as exactly as possible in this translation. The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original The caesura is meant to fall not with the comma after difficult , but after thou; and there is a most effective and grand suspension intended. Note Book of an English Opium-Eater You may please also to observe that there is not, to the best of my remembrance, one vowel gaping on another for want of a caesura in this whole poem. Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry To tell the truth, they have had to listen to far too much poetry, and too many discussions on the caesura. Adventures Among Books He admitted hiatus, but not to any great extent, and chiefly in the caesura. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius That "caesura," or breathing-place, in the midst of the verse, neither Italian nor Spanish have, the French and we never almost fail of. A Defence of Poesie and Poems She was set about with importunate conditions—a caesura, a rhyme, narrow lodgings in strange towns, bankruptcies, salaries astray—and she took only a little gentle liberty. The Spirit of Place and Other Essays Such is not the Latin where the vowels and consonants are mixed in proportion to each other; yet Virgil judged the vowels to have somewhat of an over-balance, and therefore tempers their sweetness with caesuras. Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry The "Nibelungen" strophe consists of four long lines separated by a caesura into two distinct halves. The Nibelungenlied |
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