Free Download What is Poetry?: Language and Memory in the Poems of the World by Nigel Fabb
English | August 21, 2015 | ISBN: 1107001854 | True PDF | 228 pages | 2.3 MB
Poetry, defined as language divided into lines, is found in most known human cultures. This masterful survey of poetry and its constituent components demonstrates the functions performed by metre, rhyme, alliteration and parallelism, arguing that each line of a poem fits as a whole unit into the limited capacity of human working memory.