Meaning of logopœia | Babel Free

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One of Ezra Pound's three kinds of poetry, consisting of the use of words for more than their denotation, taking advantage of the context associated with a word.

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“Unless I am right in discovering logopoeia in Propertius (which means unless the academic teaching of Latin displays crass insensitivity as it probably does), we must almost say⟳ that Laforgue invented logopoeia, observing that there had been a very limited range of logopoeia in all satire, and that Heine occasionnally employs something like⟳ it together with a dash of bitters, such as can (though he may not have⟳ known it) be found in a few verses of Dorset and Rochester.”

“In more traditional aesthetic terms one could say⟳ that logopoeia is writing which activates the higher faculties of cognition rather than relying on sense⟳ experience⟳. Whereas most poetry avails somehow of the plastic arts to enhance or "charge" language with meaning, logopoeia dances intellectually through verbal connotations, clichés, citations, and resonances.”

“Clearly, there is a definite overlap between language gaming, thus defined, and, for example, musicality: as I have⟳ pointed out earlier, none of the dimensions of this poem— imagery, music, logopoeia—are truly orthogonal to the others.”

“If one re-reads the passage with this in mind⟳, it becomes clear that the Homage is primarily about the recreation of an aesthetic attitude, which comes very close⟳ to logopoeia as understood by Sullivan and Monk in particular.”

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