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  • Prosody: the music of language

    July 8th, 2024 | Poetry | journalpulp | No Comments

      Prosody is the study of the sounds of language moving through time. The word prosody comes from the Greek prosōidía — meaning: a song sung to music. Prosody is the rhythm of words which when organized and structured in a universally recognized way become grammar. But prosody isn’t grammar. Nor is it meaning. Prosody is […]

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  • What Is Poetry?

    What Is Poetry?

    September 10th, 2011 | Poetry | journalpulp | 3 Comments

    I once knew a girl named Poetry. Everyone called her Poe. Everyone except me. I called her Poetry. I asked Poetry one day if she knew the meaning of her name, and she said yes: “To make,” Poetry said, and Poetry was right. The word “poetry,” from the Greek poiein, means exactly that: “to create, […]

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