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1. Alliteration is the the repition of consonant sounds.
-example: Sally sells seashells
2. Assonance is the repition of vowel sounds.
-example: Apples are awesome
3. Rhyme is the repition of accented vowel sounds and all succeeding sounds in words that are close to each other.
Exact Rhyme: words that exactly repeat a sound
-Example: hat and cat
Approximate or Slant Rhyme: rhyme in which the final sounds of the words are similar, not identical
-Example: groined and groaned
Internal Rhyme: rhyme occuring within a line.
End Rhyme: rhyme occuring at the end of line.
-From 1937 to his retirement in 1958, John taught at Kenyon College where he founded and edited the literary magazine "Kenyon Review." -This magazine still exists today.
-He died on July 3, 1974 in Gambier, Ohio at the age of eighty-six.
-John Crowe Ransom was born on April 30, 1888 in Pulaski, Tennessee.
-He was an American poet and critic.
-John was a leading theorist of the Southern Literary Renaissance that began after World War I.
-He attended Vanderbilt University and later taught English there.
Yet he knew that he was altered
When the perfect woman faltered,
Languish in her softly speaking,
Anguish, even, in her looking:
All the art had fled his fingertips
So he bent and kissed her lips.
He and Venus took their pleasure,
Then he turned upon his treasure,
Took and trampled it with loathing,
Flung it over cliffs to nothing;
Glittering in the sunlight while it fell
Like a lovely shattered shell.
Strict the silence that came onward
As they trod the foothill downward,
One more mocking noon of April,
Mischief always is in April;
Still she touched his fingers cold as ice
And recited, “It was nice.”
So he took her as anointed
In the part he had appointed,
She was lips for smiling faintly,
Eyes to look and level quaintly,
Length of limb and splendors of the bust
Which he honored as he must.
Queen of women playing model,
Pure of brow but brain not idle,
Sitting in her silence meetly,
Let her adjective be stately;
So he thought his art would manage right
In the honest Northern light.
But he fashioned it too coldly,
April broke-and-entered boldly,
Thinking how to suit the season’s
Odor, savor, heats and treasons:
Painter! do not stoop and play the host
Lest the man come uppermost.
Anderson, George P., Judith S. Baughman, Matthew J. Bruccoli,
and Carl Rollyson. Eds."Ransom, John Crowe." Encyclopedia of American Literature: Into the Modern: 1896–1945, vol. 3, Revised Edition. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2008. Bloom's Literature. Facts On File, Inc. Web. 01 April 2016.
Angelou, Maya. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of American
Writers. Springfield: Merriam-Webster, Incorporated, 2001. 337. Print.
Georgia, Harriet. "John Crowe Ransom." Poetry Foundation.
Poetry Foundation, 2015. Web. 01 April 2016.
Ransom, John Crowe. “Blue Girls.” Adventures In Appreciation.
Ed. Fannie Safier. Austin: Rhinehart, Winston, and Holt, 1996. 418. Print.
-Musical devices were originally used for poems that were meant to be sung.
-Musical devices are for auditory effect and can convey meaning or mood or unify a work.
-Some musical devices are alliteration, assonance and rhyme: exact, internal, and approximate or slant.
-At the university he became the leader of the Fugitives, a group of poets who created the influential literary magazine The Fugitive.
-This magazine shared a belief in the South and its regional traditions.