What enchants in Provençal poetry and in medieval French fixed forms is above all the melodious sonority, which only occurs because there is an inalienable link with music in both, that is, it only occurs because the compositions, if not intended for singing, are always intended to be recited with musical accompaniment. So rhythm and melody must necessarily harmonize in them as a constructive requirement, having an effect, or rather, endowing the composition with the delicious quality that modern poetry has striven to strip away.
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Although It Is Undoubtedly Not Professional…
Although it is undoubtedly not professional or prudent to sit at a table and allow oneself to admire the hideous wonder of the white screen with the cursor flashing like a macabre chronometer, doing so sometimes proves curious, when the result is that the brain picks up the idea from an obscure corner of the mind, and then develops it in detail, without having prepared for it. Kardec asserts that this is a very natural metaphysical process which, although intelligible, once accepted calls into question the limits, identity and individual capacities of the being. So the question, which perhaps contains a valuable lesson: to what extent do they matter?
The Great Moment of Fiction Reading
The great moment of fiction reading is when we perceive, in the individuality of the author and the work, the connection with the universal. It is great because it amplifies the sense of detail and demonstrates that the human drama is a shared drama. By noticing it, we become aware that neither time nor space alter this essential condition of being, responsible for the possibility of understanding between men; by noticing it, we become aware that the smallest thing, no matter how small, contains within itself a perennial and interchangeable significance.
The Phonic and Syntactic Richness of Portuguese
The phonic and syntactic richness of Portuguese, more than the nature of its people or the flair of its authors, places its poetry among the most remarkable in world literature. As a vehicle for expressing the primitive impulse represented by poetry, its possibilities are so varied and its effects so unique that, even when worked on by ordinary hands, it sometimes achieves results worthy of sincere admiration.