Talk:Blank verse
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[edit] Refrences Needed
Mostly in the first section, with the list of different authors using blank verse. JONJONAUG 15:41, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Gilbert & Sullivan
How is the fact that Princess Ida is exceptional in having 3 acts instead of 2 remotely relevant to this article?Exitr 15:55, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
- Agreed. I've removed it. Stumps 20:10, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Let's expand content related to non-English use of blank verse
As it stands the article is very much centered around English blank verse. I think we should expand the content on the use of the form in other languages, including references to - for example - Słowacki's and Norwid's 'wiersz biały' in Polish, the 'Белый стих' of Bobylev (Bobylyov) in Russian, the German adoption of the English style, particularly in the works of Schiller, Goethe, Grillparzer, Hebbel, Kleist etc... The article already makes a passing reference to the Slavic bylina genre. We should expand the discussion of origins to mention Trissino's Sofonisba and Rucellai's Le api and that it is believed Rucellai coined the term versi sciolti. Clearly the section on "English blank verse" will be the largest, and may in time grow large enough to have its own article. Stumps 08:18, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Blank verse in A Course In Miracles
I miss mention of A Course In Miracles for its extended use of Blank verse over hundreds of pages. The amazing thing about is, while one has to get used to it, it is still a language of modern use.
"God has not many Sons, but only One. Who can have more, and who be given less? It is for him the Holy Spirit speaks, and tells you idols have no purpose here. For more than Heaven can you never have. If Heaven is within, why would you seek for idols that would make of Heaven less, to give you more than God bestowed upon your brother and on you, as one with Him? God gave you all there is. And to be sure you could not lose it, did He also give the same to every living thing as well. And thus is every living thing a part of you, as of Himself. No idol can establish you as more than God. But you will never be content with being less." (A Course in Miracles. 2nd. New York: Penguin Group, 1996. ISBN 0-670-86975-9. Text. page 621)
"You who perceive yourself as weak and frail, with futile hopes and devastated dreams, born but to die, to weep and suffer pain, hear this: All power is given unto you in earth and Heaven. There is nothing that you cannot do. You play the game of death, of being helpless, pitifully tied to dissolution in a world which shows no mercy to you. Yet when you accord it mercy, will its mercy shine on you." (A Course in Miracles. 2nd. New York: Penguin Group, 1996. ISBN 0-670-86975-9. Workbook. page 364)
Thanks--Mindawiki 20:23, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
