Putting your heart to sleep with pentameters: a prosodic, lexical, and syntactic analysis of Pessoa's "Sonnet X"
This article analyzes Fernando Pessoa's Sonnet X ("As to a child, I talked by heart asleep") as a modernist parody of the Shakespearean sonnet. The presence of that highly constrained form is clearly recognizable at the level of both versification and language. At the same time, a num...
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| Language: | English |
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Brown University
2016-10-01
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| Series: | Pessoa Plural |
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| Online Access: | https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:734953/PDF/ |