{"id":2308,"date":"2013-04-01T09:26:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T13:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=2308"},"modified":"2013-04-01T09:26:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T13:26:00","slug":"the-economist-on-enjambment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2013\/04\/01\/the-economist-on-enjambment\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economist on Enjambment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Core presents an article from <em>The Economist<\/em>, which discusses enjambment&#8217;s popularity and origins. Here is an extract:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In \u201cThe Force of Poetry\u201d, Christopher Ricks, formerly the Oxford Professor of Poetry who is now at Boston University, writes elegantly of the way enjambment can make language seem elastic:<\/p>\n<p>Lineation in verse creates units which may or may not turn out to be units of sense; the &#8220;flicker of hesitation&#8221;\u2026as to what the unit of sense actually is\u2014a flicker resolved when we round the corner into the next line\u2014can create nuances which are central to the poet\u2019s enterprise.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ricks cites some fine examples, such as John Milton&#8217;s use of the device to turn an intransitive verb to a transitive one in two lines from \u201cParadise Lost\u201d:<\/p>\n<p>Then feed on thoughts, that involuntary move<br \/>\nHarmonious numbers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For the full article, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/econ.st\/YW1HeH\">econ.st\/YW1HeH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Core presents an article from The Economist, which discusses enjambment&#8217;s popularity and origins. Here is an extract: In \u201cThe Force of Poetry\u201d, Christopher Ricks, formerly the Oxford Professor of Poetry who is now at Boston University, writes elegantly of the way enjambment can make language seem elastic: Lineation in verse creates units which may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3740,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[898,244,6590,4854,2671],"tags":[45050,45044,45046,45049,45048,15,4376,45047,197,45045,44883],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3740"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2309,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions\/2309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}