Name: 3.ロバート・フロスト (3. Robert Frost (cont.))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T04:53:06.000Z
Duration: 50 min 6 s
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Professor Langdon Hammer: We talked on Monday

about Frost's idea of "the sound of sense" and vernacular speech

forms, his wish to put these in tension or, as he put it,

"strained relation" with metrical pattern.

The primary metrical pattern in Frost is the primary metrical

pattern in English poetry, which is to say blank verse or

Meter is--it's a scheme for organizing verse,

It's a scheme that in English counts accents or stresses per

line and then arranges them in a pattern.

which is what we're reading more often than not in English

relation to unaccented syllables, creating a kind of

The iamb is a simple pattern of an unstressed syllable followed

these are all simple iambic phrases that you hear in our

If you repeat a boat three times--a boat,

trimeter, iambic trimester – three iambs in a row.

If you do it four times, you've got tetrameter,

And if you repeat them five times, you have pentameter.

For some of you, this will seem self-evident;

for others, it'll seem like a great puzzle.

What constitutes an accent when you--what is an accent in a

In fact, linguists often argue about this subject,

Accent is something somewhat difficult to define and

Poetry is not interested in expert debate at all,

and it converts the big spectrum of possible degrees of

accent into those two simple categories: stressed and

So, if you're unsure about the metrical definition of a line,

because it's hard to discriminate between levels of

case, remember that more often than not, the context takes over

and the regular beat of a meter rules and perhaps promotes an

accent in a phrase that might not otherwise seem to have one

points by just reading together and trying to hear the beginning

This is an example of blank verse, and that is always to

be--blank verse always, perhaps confusingly,

Blank verse is unrhymed iambic pentameter.

Free verse is non-metrical poetry, another thing

When I see birches bend to left and right

Across the lines of straighter darker trees,

I like to think some boy's been swinging them.

Well, for me, when I try to make sense of the

meter of given lines, I think it's useful to try to

seem most clearly stressed, to, you know,

and use that then as a structure from which to

Just looking at this first line: "When I see birches bend

"When I see birches bend to left and right."

And sometimes it's not good to repeat it too often;

Let's see if we can't identify those syllables that we all are

Where's the first accent that you really want to say,

Anybody want to propose another stress in that line?

left and right." I think I would want to scan

I think that word "see" deserves the accent there,

and so it's--the first unit of sound isn't quite normative.

It takes Frost a little sweep to get going.

But by the time we finish the end of that line,

we are really right in the middle of very regular iambic