Newsgroup: it.arti.poesia
Titolo: R: Re: R: Come si scrive una poesia (2)

Everyone knows that poetic meter, even when unskillfully managed, tends to 
produce a pleasant effect, but metrical theorists disagree vigorously about 
the reason for the universal popularity of metered compositions. According 
to some theorists (mostly rationalists), meter is pleasant because it 
focuses the reader's attention and refines his awareness. Thus to Coleridge 
meter tends "to increase the vivacity and susceptibility both of the general 
feelings and of the attention.... As a medicated atmosphere, or as a wine 
during animated conversation, [the expectations aroused by meter] act 
powerfully, though themselves unnoticed." According to other theorists 
(mostly romanticists), meter operates by inducing in the reader a state 
resembling hypnosis. Some argue that, since the beat in most accentual 
poetry is slightly faster than the normal heart beat, the apprehension of 
metered language physically exhilarates the hearer or reader: the heart 
beat, it is said, actually speeds up in an effort to "match" the slightly 
faster poetic rhythm. According to I. A. Richards, the effect of poetic 
rhythm is distinctly physiological and perhaps sexual. As he says, "Its 
effect is not due to our perceiving a pattern in something outside us, but 
to our becoming patterned ourselves. With every beat of the metre a tide of 
anticipation in us turns and swings..." And he goes on to say: "We shall 
never understand metre so long as we ask, 'Why does temporal pattern so 
excite us?' and fail to realize that the pattern itself is a vast cyclic 
agitation spreading all over the body, a tide of excitement pouring through 
the channels of the mind." Coleridge may have meant something similar when 
he asserted that "The poet...brings the whole soul of man into activity."
The pleasure which universally results from foot tapping and musical 
time-beating does suggest that the pleasures of meter are essentially 
physical and as intimately connected with the rhythmic quality of our total 
experience as the similarly alternating and recurring phenomena of 
breathing, walking, or love-making. But the quality of the apprehender of 
meter determines the kinds of pleasure available from it: children and the 
unsophisticated receive from meter almost wholly physical pleasure, 
manifesting itself in foot tapping and head nodding. On the other hand, more 
experienced and sensitive readers probably derive much of their metrical 
pleasure from the high degree of rhetorical attention which meter demands 
("Meter keeps the mind on the stretch," one critic has said), or from the 
intellectual and humanistic delight of witnessing order and containment 
being born out of chaos and flux. Medieval theories of meter, in fact, 
frequently assume that the pleasure man takes in meter is a simulacrum of 
the pleasure he takes in the principle of order and recurrence in a universe 
which itself would seem to be will and order incarnate.
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E' totalmente inutile che scrivi in inglese per non farti capire,
capisco molto bene l'inglese!
A presto Viola

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