Tuesday, October 23, 2007

News at Eleven (Back Page): The audience plays a key part

in this poetic duelling, clapping rhythmically and chorusing the refrains, and the poetry is also allied to dance.

This [Zajal] is a sophisticated art that uses classical allusion, clever turns of phrase, rhyme, assonance, and paranomasia (punning, play on words with similar sounds).

from Middle East Online: Make poetic dueling not war

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