Poetic Closure
A Study of How Poems End
- Contents
Table of Contents

Contents
1 Introduction
I A Definition of Poetic Structure
II The Perception of Poetic Structure
III Poetry and Speech
IV Poetry, Form, and Integrity
V Style and Conventions
VI Closure and Stability
2 Formal Structure and Closure
I Introduction
II Closure and Formal Conventions: The English
Sonnet
III Stanzaic Forms
IV The Rhymed Couplet
V Blank Verse
VI Free Verse
3 Thematic Structure and Closure
I Introduction
II Paratactic Structure
III Sequential Structure
Temporal Sequence
Logical and Syntactic Sequences
IV Associative and Dialectic Structure
4 Special Terminal Features
I Introduction: Closure and the Sense of Truth
II Formal Devices and Nonsytematic Repetition
III Puns, Parallelism, and Antithesis
IV Thematic Devices: Closural Allusions
V Thematic Devices: Unqualified Assertions
VI The Poetic Coda
5 Further Aspects and Problems of Closure
I Epigram and Epigrammatic
II Failures of Closure
III Closure and Anti-Closure in Modern Poetry
IV Coda: Beyond Closure
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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