caesura

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building, or other work of art.

   “Now, then, for my prologue. I am not going to change my cæsuras and cadences for anybody; so if you do not like the heroic, or iambic trimeter brachy-catalectic, you had better not wait to hear it […]”

2. isim Using two words to divide a metrical foot.
3. isim The caesura mark ‖ or ||.
4. isim A break of an era or other measure of history and time; where one era ends and another begins; turning point.

   “Like the knocking at the door in Macbeth, or the cry of the watchman in the Tour de Nesle, they show that the horrible cæsura is over and the nightmares have fled away, because the day is breaking and the ordinary life of men is beginning to bestir itself among the streets.”