Different sorts of stresses (Episode 9)

Published: Sept. 29, 2022, 10:17 p.m.

Different sorts of stresses and their superposition.\xa0 A lot on one line in\xa0Paradise Lost: "Is this the region, this the soil, the clime...?"\xa0 And a bit on one line in Yeats: "Vain gaiety, vain battle, vain repose."\xa0 And then the opening line of\xa0Paradise Lost: the stress in the\xa0word "first," the countervailing stress on the\xa0word "disobedience."