prancing poetry

English translation: means...

20:59 Dec 2, 2019

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Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / Poetry

English term or phrase: prancing poetry

There is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away,
Nor any coursers like a page
Of "prancing poetry" :
This traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of toll;
How frugal is the chariot
That bears the human soul

Fatemeh Hassan jani KudoZ activity Questions: 2 (1 open) Answers: 0
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Explanation:
People often say that poetry means whatever you think it means or whatever associations the reader has with the words.

However, Dickinson, like most poets chose her words carefully and is playing with words here that describing various ways READING can transport you to "lands away"
here a frigate,
a courser (=a knight's horse, then described as a "prancing" or high-stepping pony)
+ chariot

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/prancing
"When a horse prances, it takes small, quick steps and raises its legs higher than usual."

and the poem's metric system also gives the sound of the pony...See here:
https://www.shmoop.com/there-is-no-frigate-like-a-book/rhyme...
iambic meter. This poem has the rhythmic, da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM feeling of an iambic meter. An "iamb," a popular kind of metrical "foot" (or unit) is made up of two syllables, one unstressed (da), and the other stressed (DUM). It might help to think of the clever reference to "prancing Poetry" in line 4, and imagine a horse briskly trotting along to get a feel for this meter. "

so think of the journey on this prancing pony your mind can take when reading. Prancing is a happy image
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prance
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/prance
https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/pranc...

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verb (used without object), pranced, pranc·ing.
to spring from the hind legs; to move by springing, as a horse.
to ride on a horse doing this.
to ride gaily, proudly, or insolently.
to move or go in an elated manner; cavort.

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https://www.academia.edu/31292015/Analysis_of_Emily_Dickinso...

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oops, I just realised I have a typo above. I wrote prancing "pony" instead of "poetry"
so yes, the "courser" is a knight's horse but reading a page of "prancing poetry" is even better than riding this horse as your imagination can travel even further...

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Local time: 19:10

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means...

Yvonne Gallagher

چکامه ای طرب انگیز

Marzieh Izadi

جست و خیز کنان

Ali Sharifi

Prancing Poetry is poetry that has high spots an low spots. That makes you want to cry and laugh. Up

Roberta Broccoletti

a play on "metric foot"

Hassan Lotfy

prancing poetry

Pedro Montoro Françozo

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30 mins confidence:

what does prancing poetry mean? چکامه ای طرب انگیز

Explanation:
There is no frigate like a book

هیچ ناوی چون کتاب

to take us lands away

ما را به دریاهای دور نتواند برد

nor any coursers like a page

و هیچ سمندی همچو برگی

of prancing poetry

از چکامه ای طرب انگیز

this traverse may the poorest take

اینک وسیله ای رایگان

without oppress of toll

برای گشت و کذار تنگدستان

how frugal is the chariot

وه چه کم بهاست

that bears the human soul

ارابه حامل روح انسان

Reference: http://www.danestoon.blogfa.com/post/134

Marzieh Izadi
Local time: 20:10
Native speaker of:

Persian (Farsi)

34 mins confidence:

what does prancing poetry mean? Prancing Poetry is poetry that has high spots an low spots. That makes you want to cry and laugh. Up

Explanation:
Prancing Poetry is poetry that has high spots an low spots. That makes you want to cry and laugh. Up an down. Hot and cold. Yes and no.

https://www.answers.com/Q/What_is_prancing_poetry
https://www.poetry.net/psearch/prancing

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Prancing Poetry is poetry that has high spots and low spots. That makes you want to cry and laugh.
Up and down. Hot and cold. Yes and no.

Roberta Broccoletti
Italy
Local time: 20:10
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Italian

5 hrs confidence:

what does prancing poetry mean? جست و خیز کنان

Explanation:
که بالا و پایین می رود،

هیچ ناوچه ای چون کتاب نیست
که ما را به سر زمین های دور برد
و هیچ سوار کاری چون صفحه ای
از شعر جست و خیز کنان نیست
این سفر را هر چند فقیران
بدون سختی و مشقت روند
چه بی ارزش است ارابه ای
که روح انسان را می برد

Courser
به معنی سوار کار یا شوالیه قرون وسطی است که اسب او جست و خیز می کند همانطور که لحن شعر بالا و پایین می رود

Example sentence(s):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courser_(horse)

Ali Sharifi
United States
Local time: 14:10
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Persian (Farsi)

5 hrs confidence:

what does prancing poetry mean? a play on "metric foot"

Explanation:
Referring to stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.
To me it doesn't mean a type of poetry .. just: not even an elite horse would prance like a page of poetry.

Hassan Lotfy
Egypt
Local time: 20:10
Native speaker of:

Arabic,

English
PRO pts in category: 3

6 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +6

what does "prancing poetry" mean?

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Yvonne Gallagher
Ireland
Local time: 19:10
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 317

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9 hrs confidence:

what does prancing poetry mean? prancing poetry

Explanation:
he might be refering to how the stress in the syllables of a poem may seem to go up and down, or alluding to perhaps the image of one who reckons themselves a gret poet and very pompously prances about as he recites his work, or reads it to to others in order to show off. (think pink cheeks, white wig, fancy shakespearean clothes, make up on, cup of tea in one hand, book in the other, while skipping around the garden and reading... if that all makes any sense to you:P

Pedro Montoro Françozo
Brazil
Local time: 15:10
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Portuguese

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