La primera escansión poética de la obra teatral "Waiting for Godot"

Resumo

Although the play Waiting for Godot is obviously dramatic art written in prose, my original hypothesis is that it contains certain poetical and rhythmical facets. A play is to be listened to - even more so than poetry, and the sound and rhythm are of first importance. Therefore, attention needs to be drawn to the metrical aspect of Godot. The originality of my hypothesis was confirmed recently by an international expert in Beckett who in response to my question replied that the field was wide open to scansion of any of Beckett`s plays. Others have described linguistic facets of the play, but no analysis of the metre seems to have taken place at all. There has been no systematic examination of this point as far as I am aware. In this article, I have tried to rectify that disregard by carrying out my own original scansion of part of Beckett's play. The passage I have used is that which refers to the dead voices (Beckett, 1977: 62 - 63). Consequently, I describe the conclusions arrived at after having carried out the said analysis through poetic scansion of this play.