"What is Enjambment?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
- Professor Jen Richter answers the question "What is Enjambment?" using examples from the poets Mary Oliver and Lucille Clifton. The short video is designed to help high school and college English students to properly identify enjambed and end-stopped lines of poetry and to analyze the different purposes that each type of lineation serves.
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0:00 Enjambment Defined
1:17 Why Use Enjambment in Poetry?
1:58 Enjambed vs End-Stopped Lines
2:13 Interpreting Enjambment
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This video was great and very informative. I've seen many people tear down the use of enjambment in modern poetry, but as you've detailed it here very well, it's a beautiful technique. 🙌
Thanks so much, Devanshi! We're delighted to hear that you enjoyed the video, and we hope you'll check out our other videos on poetic techniques as well!
@@SWLF Sure, I will. Your channel is awesome. And as a writer, I'm sure it'll be very helpful!
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Thank you - this really helped me. Your explanation of enjambment is EXCELLENT.
Thanks so much, Matthew! We're happy to hear you enjoyed the video, and we hope you like the others in our literary terms series as well!
These videos are gems, indeed. Now, finish this, and then proceed.
Thanks so much for your kind words, R.V.!
Thanks SWLF for this video with Spanish subtitles!!! It´s great.
Thanks so much, @osvaldogomez9580 ! Most of our other literary terms videos offer Spanish subtitles as well!
Thank you very much - I have watched various videos in attempt to gain a deeper understanding of enjambments and you're video has done just that for me. You have detailed it beautifully. Thank you for taking the time to make this video😁😁😁😁
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Before watching this video, I was not knowing anything about enjambment but after watching this.........
Thanks for this great explanation. 😊👍
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Wonderful explanation of enjambment. I didn't know it's meaning clearly. Thank you Madam🙏💕
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The music in the background is such an example of the assumption more, is better. It does not add to the professionalism; it distracts. The merry-go-round tinkling also, a part of the new adult belief, I can't grow up without my pacifier, (they always had background music on Sesame Street) Or could it be the need to reinvent the wheel or the need to publish a new idea or perrish? Good presentation knowledgable, well taught. Could have been better without the competition of useless music.
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Thanks for such a great clear explanation on enjambment!
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Your explanations wants me to read and explore more....thank you❤️ London❤️
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This was amazing. I often use it in formal poems, more so in sestinas. So that I can continue my line without interrupting the form.
Many thanks for your kind words, Kennedy. And how many sestinas have you written!?! That is an incredibly difficult form in which to work!
Oregon State University - School of Writing, Literature and Film I am fairly new to sestinas so not a lot. I did find that I was more comfortable with them when I used enjambment.
Well, one of our favorite poems is "Sestina," by Elizabeth Bishop, so check that one out if you need any inspiration. An incredibly sad but beautiful poem. And if you're interested in a similarly complex (and dark) poem, check out David Biespiel's reading of Natasha Trethewey's poem "Myth" in his "Juxtaposition" video for our series. Here's to formally sophisticated poetry!
Oregon State University - School of Writing, Literature and Film thank you for the recommendations.
Appreciate the explanation!! Clear and concise
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Nice explanation. Thank you for the big help.
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Best literary guide in RUclips. Oregon university...way to go. You guys are gems🌼🌼🌼
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They really are. Is it bad form to use these in my class. They know more than I do lol
Such a great explanation.........👌
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Wonderful explanation. Many thanks.
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thank u so much it has helped me in my examination
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Super explanation mam, many poems of Indian poet A. K. Ramanujan are filled with Enjambment 😌
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Enjambment is French word ( striding over ) it’s poetic term of continuation of sentence or pharse from one line of poetry to next . Enjambed line typically lacks punctuation at line break , so reader is carried smoothly and swiftly without interruption to next line poem . Effect of enjambment quickens pace of poem , creating sense or urgency or tension . Early Shakespeare as his style developed proportions of enjambment in his plays increased . Enjambment builds more complex narrative within poem , by fleeing our thought instead of confining to one line . Creates sense of drama in poem as readers are pulled beyond limitations of single line . Wordsworth used enjambment to break up sentence . Emily Dickinson used enjambment . Her creation of ambiguity because they shown numerous possible interpretation and they engage reader in process understanding varied meanings. Poets use enjambment because it’s quickens pace of poem by reducing break between sentences. Opposite of enjambment is end stopped line . Thank you for your wonderful literary educational channel.
Nice work here, Khatoon! We agree (though our favorite example of enjambment might be William Carlos Williams' "The Red Wheel Barrow"...
So as far as I understood the concept - Enjambment means making sure that you don't break the flow of water.
But here's my question,the prose you mentioned by Oliver Mary which says "We leap with more energy over a ditch than over no ditch" does that mean it promotes the usage of punctuation as punctuation adds more suspense to the reader.
A bit confused on this, please elucidate the following doubt.
Great question, starry scars! We'd say in this instance, Oliver is using "ditch" as a metaphor for the feeling of uncertainty when we get to the end of a line that isn't end-stopped (that is, it doesn't end with a punctuation mark that indicates a pause). Without this punctuation, we run (or leap, in Oliver's metaphor) from one line to the next without pausing, which creates a kind of energy of momentum that we don't have when we pause and take a breath in end-stopped lines.
Hope that helps!
This helped me alot Thanks
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Is it still called enjambment if the line that’s cut off is at the end of the stanza?
Yes! It most certainly is. Great question, Brooklyn! Thanks for keeping the conversation going.
Thank you so much ma'am this video was quite helpful for me ... Thanks alot
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Very good explanation....😊 helped me a lot.
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Most welcome but my name is Shireen and l have just subscribed your channel to further watch your videos.
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Such a great explanation...But i have some confusion..When there is full stop or comma but the meaning is in continuing,can we call it enjambment
Great question, Yusra! Enjambment always follows the punctuation of the line (or lines) and will often play around with the sense of meaning of a given set of lines through enjambment. For a good example of this aspect of the term, check out William Carlos Williams' "The Red Wheel Barrow" poem.
@@SWLF Thank u so much ma'am ..I did go through this poem mentioned by u and i found that yes enjambment may include punctuation but meaning could still be in continuation with the following lines..In other words flow of ideas keeps going on
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Amazing ma'am... 🙏
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Thank you.
Thanks so much, Holly!
Can you do video on caesura?
Thanks for the suggestion, Sajida! We definitely have caesura on our list of upcoming topics.
thank you i understand now
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Thank you
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As Nietzsche would have said, the metaphor that beat suits reality would be that of enjambment; however not enjambment with relation to other concepts and things, but enjambment as such, without any aid of orientation, beginning or end.
Interesting comment, J S. Would you care to elaborate?
@@SWLF I wrote a large comment but it failed to post. Oh well.
Read Sarah Kofman's Nietzsche and Metaphor and you will get a sense for where im coming from.
Nice informative video
Thanks so much, Yash!
Amazing.
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Professor, Jen Rictcher are you on Instagram Please? And what is your handle? Many thanks for the lectures
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Are you ever just like english is SO cool?
All the time!
I’m learning this at year seven basically seventh grade in America 😢
That's great news, @Isa-hv5np ! You're going to be well prepared for high school literary analyses!
Thank you infinitely! Hare Krishna God Bless! ❤🙏😀
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Love 💗 you my sweet heart ❤️🙏
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You just said it's awesome. The examples are not clear.
I'm cambridge
Trinity Hall or Gonville and Caius?
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Why the annoying background music?
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the piano is so distracting
Thanks for the comment, Zannie. We went a little overboard with the background music in our early videos, but we've tried to change it up as we get feedback like this.
Poor use of enjambment makes some poems sound just… lazy
Ha! True. But well-placed uses of enjambment can give a poem an incredible amount of energy! Thanks for the comment, Aaron TJN.