Enjambment.pptx

Enjambment is one of the literature terminologies which refers to stepping over or stretching something. Many poets used this way of writing in the late early period to make poems melodious.

1. Enjambment Poetic Terminology

2. Enjambment is a poetic term   originated from   French which means  " step over ''. In this poetic device , a writer   continues after writing first line . It carries lines without the disruption   of   punctuation at its line break or pause so that a reader reads poetry without   any confusion . There are many great poets used this literary device in their poems to make them melodious . For example ; Gwendolyn Brooks -We Real Cool, John Donne - The Good Marrow . 

3. The Good  Marrow by John Donne I wonder , by my troth , what thou and I Did , till we loved ? Were we not weaned till then ? In this stanza , the   writer   open the   second line without breaking the continuity . 

4. We Real Cool It is written by Gwendolyn Brook in  1959.  We real cool . We Left school . We lurk late . We Strike straight . We Sing sin . We Thin gin . We Jazz june . We Die soon . If you closely look at the poem , you can see a period or   pause "." however , these pause   are oftenly calls   caesura .   There is no natural pause or   cancellation .