Early Tahitian Poetics
| By: | David Meyer |
| Publisher: | De Gruyter |
| Print ISBN: | 9781614515258 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781614513759 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2013 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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Tahiti has a rich history of oral tradition. Early visitors to the island transcribed recitations of myth, battle address, and land description. Until now their poetic organization has remained unexplored. From a computationally assisted analysis, this book describes early use of meter and parallelism and speculates on manner of composition. It sheds light on a poetic style unanticipated for Polynesia and remarkable among world poetries.