Density
This chapter explores the ‘vertical’ or the simultaneous way in which non-denotative elements contribute to a piece or poem. This simultaneous quality is referred to as ‘density’. As so often with abstract forms, density is more easily spotted in music than in verse, as it is easier to believe there just is more going on at any one moment of a thickly orchestrated symphony than of a string trio: more diversity, even though not necessarily more in the way of musical ideas, and above all simply more noise. In poetry, however, the chapter sums up the principle of poetic density through an equation: D = CV (or, density = content × versification).
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