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By Vachel Lindsay
31 Jan, 2020
"The Congo," exemplified Vachel's aesthetic of sound for sound's sake. It imitates the pounding of the drums in the rhythms and in onomatopoeic nonsense words. At parts, the poem ceases to use conventional words when representing the chants of Congo
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"The Congo," exemplified Vachel's aesthetic of sound for sound's sake. It imitates the pounding of the drums in the rhythms and in onomatopoeic nonsense words. At parts, the poem ceases to use conventional words when representing the chants of Congo's indigenous people, relying just on sound alone. Less
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- Public Domain Books
- 2015-09-01
- English
- 9780486272726
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