Interaction of Free Verse and Meter
Northeast Modern Language Association
Hartford, Connecticut
March 30-31, 2001
This panel solicits papers that consider free verse,
not in opposition to, but in the context of metrical
verse composition. Much can be gained from
reconsidering free verse as it was in fact often
practiced, alongside traditional metrical composition
within an individual poet^Rs career. By taking this
approach, an evolutionary story may emerges about
prosodic choices as differing adaptive strategies,
instead of the usual narrative of a sudden cleavage
between two practices.
Papers might consider a poet^Rs metrical practice and
free verse practice simultaneously, exploring how the
satisfactions of the one prosody answered the
dissatisfactions of the other, or investigating how
the choices involved in each responded to such
specific technical issues as the nature of the English
language, changes in American speech idiom, and the
desire to represent non-linguistic matter. At the
historical level, too, papers might distinguish
between free verse^Rs several stages of arrival and its
various champions who espoused it for radically
different reasons informed by their varying poetics,
backgrounds, and historical moments.
Papers on any poet or poetry movement from the
mid-19th ^V 20th century are welcome.
Send detailed abstract or completed papers by 9/5 to:
Natalie Gerber
93 Hillside Avenue
Hasbrouck Heights, NJ 07604
Electronic submissions are strongly encouraged:
ngerber@uclink4.berkeley.edu
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