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vers libre

Meaning of "vers libre" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF VERS LIBRE

vɛr librə


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF VERS LIBRE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Vers libre is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES VERS LIBRE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Vers libre

Vers libre is an open form of poetry that abandons consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or other forms of musical pattern. It thus tends to follow the rhythm of natural speech.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH VERS LIBRE

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE VERS LIBRE

vers · versability · Versace · Versailles · versal · versant · versatile · versatilely · versatileness · versatility · verse · versed · versed sine · verselet · verseman · verser · verset · versicle · versicolor · versicolour

WORDS THAT END LIKE VERS LIBRE

acrylic fibre · calibre · carbon fibre · Cuba libre · dietary fibre · fibre · glass fibre · lucha libre · man-made fibre · microfibre · muscle fibre · nerve fibre · optical fibre · pita fibre · subcalibre

Synonyms and antonyms of vers libre in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «vers libre» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF VERS LIBRE

Find out the translation of vers libre to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of vers libre from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «vers libre» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

VERS自由报
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

vers libre
570 millions of speakers
en

English

vers libre
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

vers मुफ्त
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

فرس ليبر
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

верлибра
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

vers libre
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

মুক্তিযুদ্ধ
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

vers libre
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Vers libre
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

vers libre
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

VERSリブレ
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

적이있는 리브레
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Versus gratis
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

libre vers
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

விஸ்வரூபம்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

मुक्त लिब्रे
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

Libre daha
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

vers libre
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

vers libre
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

верлібру
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

vers libre
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

vers libre
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vers gratis
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

vers libre
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

vers libre
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of vers libre

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «VERS LIBRE»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about vers libre

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VERS LIBRE»

Discover the use of vers libre in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to vers libre and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Vers Libre: The Emergence of Free Verse in France, 1886-1914
The book also includes useful commentaries on poems by Rimbaud, Laforgue, Claudel, and Apollinaire.
Clive Scott, 1990
2
T.S. Eliot: Poetry, Plays and Prose
Vers libre was popularised by Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, Jules Laforgue, Edouard Dujardin and others. It was also used by Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound and D.H. Lawrence. Vers libre must be distinguished from blank verse that was introduced,  ...
Sunil Kumar Sarker, 2000
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Idylle Nocturne; Acte D'Argot En Vers Libre Kist
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
Kistemaeckers Henry Hubert Alexandre, 2009
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The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics: Fourth Edition
Vers libre can claim, with some justification, to have “psychologized” verse structure, to have made the act of writing apparently simultaneous with the changing movements of mind: “a poem is not a feeling communicated just as it was ...
Stephen Cushman, Clare Cavanagh, Jahan Ramazani, 2012
5
From Physics to Metaphysics: Philosophy and Allegory in the ...
As Richard Shusterman notes: “In 'Reflection on Vers Libre' Eliot cleverly employs reductive analysis to argue the notion that vers libre is merely an empty battlecry and that there really is no such thing as free verse.”38 In 'Reflection on Vers ...
Fabio L. Vericat Pérez-Mínguez, 2011
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From Physics to Metaphysics: Philosophy and Allegory in the ...
As Richard Shusterman notes: "In 'Reflection on Vers Libre' Eliot cleverly employs reductive analysis to argue the notion that vers libre is merely an empty battlecry and that there really is no such thing as free verse."38 In 'Reflection on Vers ...
Fabio L. Vericat, 2004
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Walt Whitman Among the French: Poet and Myth
VERS-LIBRE An understanding of Whitman's relationship to the early French Symbolists is particularly important in discussing the role that Whitman's poetic theory and practice played in the development of vers-libre in France. In his articles ...
Betsy Erkkila, 2014
8
To Criticize the Critic and Other Writings
Ceux qui possèdent leur vers libre y tiennent: on nabandonne que le vers libre. Duhamel et Vildrac. lady, renowned in her small circle for the accuracy of her stop-press information of literature, complains to me of a growing pococurantism.
Thomas Stearns Eliot, 1965
9
Poetry and Drama: Literary Terms and Concepts
In England the tradition was kept alive by the neo—Victorian topi— cal poems of Sir John Betjeman. VERS LIBRE Vers libre (meaning “free verse”) is a 19th— century poetic innovation that lib— erated French poetry from its traditional prosodic ...
Britannica Educational Publishing, Kuiper, Kathleen, 2011
10
The Love Poems of Ahmad Shamlu
Background 23 this manner, produced a hybrid poetry that was more complex than vers libre itself had been in its original cultural milieu.23 In fact, vers libre and its usage among twentieth century poets of Iran still remains a topic of research.
Aḥmad Shāmlū, 2005

5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VERS LIBRE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term vers libre is used in the context of the following news items.
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When Pound and Yeats Ate a Peacock
... most of them in vers libre. After the meal, the party—Blunt plus the other six poets, including Pound and Yeats—posed in front of an ancient stone wall for what ... «The New Yorker, Feb 15»
2
L'album « En vers libre » de Zouzou "égérie des sixties", Denys …
Après une longue traversée du désert, Zouzou, la rebelle, l'icône d'Eric Rhomer dans les années 60, sort un nouvel album « En vers libre » la pochette est ... «France Musique, Jun 14»
3
M. Brix, Poème en prose, vers libre et modernité littéraire
De curieuses chimères sont entrées dans l'arène de la poésie française, au cours de la deuxième moitié du XIXe siècle : le poème en prose et le vers libre. «Fabula, May 14»
4
T S Eliot: Reflections on vers libre
It is assumed that vers libre exists. It is assumed that vers libre is a school; that it consists of certain theories; that its group or groups of theorists will either ... «New Statesman, Apr 13»
5
Du nouveau sur le vers libre
À la différence du vers régulier en effet, pour lequel l'approche a été renouvelée, le vers libre n'a pas fait l'objet d'études systématiques, spécifiquement ... «Fabula, Nov 08»
REFERENCE
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