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'The Rhapsodic Fallacy' is an essay by United States poet Mary Kinzie in which she defines and attacks a "rhapsodic" conception of poetry. It was first published in ''Salmagundi'' 65 of Fall 1984〔''Salmagundi'' of Fall 1984, pages 63–79〕 and was collected in ''The Cure of Poetry in an Age of Prose: Moral Essays on the Poet's Calling,'' and a somewhat shorter version of the essay was later anthologized in ''Twentieth-Century American Poetics''〔edited by Dana Gioia, David Mason, and Meg Schoerke〕 The essay was one of several of the mid-1980s that sparked a heated discussion over the role of form in American poetry, and was thus implicated in the formation of the New Formalism movement. ==The rhapsodic conception of poetry== Kinzie begins the essay by identifying two contradictory strands in the critical writing and poetry of Edgar Allan Poe which she perceives as "begetting" the "rhapsodic" conception of poetry. These strands are: #"intensity can only be achieved in spontaneous, fragmented utterance", and #"the mental epic is viable" She moves on to lament the loss of many forms or genres of poetry that were widely used in earlier times, including satire, the epistle, georgic, pastoral, allegory, philosophical poem, epic, verse drama, and tragedy, and quotes an essay by Australian poet A. D. Hope: "One after another the great forms disappear".〔A. D. Hope, "The Discursive Mode: Reflections on the Ecology of Poetry"〕 Kinzie sees free verse as the "great equalizer" and ushering in an age of reduced scope and ambition. "When poems not only set themselves at a uniform pitch, but also contract themselves to recurrent, predictable five- or ten-line climaxes, pretty soon the surprises do not surprise us any more. The new prosaic-lyrical effusion is organized to get us into and out of the poem with extraordinary rapidity and no lasting effects." Kinzie proceeds to identify three main contemporary "substyles" of the prosaic-rhapsodic: #the Objective Style #the Mixed Ironic Style #the Innocuous Surreal Style 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Rhapsodic Fallacy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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