Thanks for clearing this up for me, Bob.
John Herbert Cunningham
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John Herbert Cunningham wrote:
> I'm new to these terms - jump cuts and register jumping - Tim. Would you
mind explaining?
I'll, uh, jump in--mainly to thank Robin for bringing up register
jumping. I knew what it was but never thought of it as very important,
and never credited The Waste Land for pioneering it, until Robin brought
it up. I always find it fascinating when I suddenly realize after years
in poetics that I've missed something fairly important for all of them.
Okay, a jump-cut is primarily a sudden shift from one narrative strand
to a second that seems to have nothing in common with it. Narrative non
sequitur. For instance, in the Wasteland, "I read, much of the night,
and go south in the winter." Odd, at this remove from the publication
of this poem, it's hard for me, checking the poem to write this post, to
identify the jump-cuts--for I seem to have learned all of them back to
the emotional unity of the poem.
Register shift is jumping abruptly from one register of . . . diction?
to one dat sounds real funny after what was.
--Bob G.
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