A discussion with Ben Glaser | Yale University
How we say something can be as important as what we say; meter, intonation, and other elements of prosody play a critical role in our communication. Poets, especially, have used prosody to increase the aesthetic impact of their work and to convey meaning beyond what their words say. Why do poets make the prosodic choices they do? And how can studying a poem's prosody help us find new enjoyment and insight in it?
Ben Glaser is Assistant Professor of English at Yale University. His new book, Modernism’s Metronome: Meter and Twentieth-century Poetics (2020, Johns Hopkins University Press), offers new insight into the history and use of meter among poets and critics.