... paintings, The Oath of the Horatii and The Intervention of the Sabine Women illustrate the force of such eventful forms and flows in this revolutionary period and introduce the analytical concept of the event pause. actor Boltanski Luc emotion event existence form identity interpretation meaning...

... to the test, constructing coherent systems of feeling from irregular patterns of rhyme and pause. In doing so, he aspires to a new poetic idiom—distinct from both classical and romantic prosodies, and suggestive of modernist free verse—where form and feeling might be more perfectly in tune. Patmore Coventry...