"Intensely Constellatory" Style? (help)

[psood0nym]

Being largely ignorant of formal poetic and literary techniques, I need the help of more knowledgeable Blers in acquainting myself with, for lack of a better term, “layered or inter-reflected” style. I speak here of, with simple examples, the style of newspaper headlines or even something as mundane as the old corporate slogan “RRRuffles have RRRidges”. In the later example, we find enhanced phonetic alliteration coupled with the semantic “alliteration” of ruffles/ridges/serrations/wrinkles/imbrications as associated textural patterns. I’m asking if there is an intensely constellatory style of prose/poetry. I’m wondering if there is a literary science that includes but goes beyond alliteration, onomatopoeia, pun, double-entendre, and the other "reinforcers". To illustrate this expanded notion, take my screen name psood0nym (originally meant to be psood 0. nym): it is a name that itself means a name chosen to be anonymous, it’s not capitalized, the middle “initial” is actually a number—moreover a cipher—masquerading as a letter, and as a whole the name holds only a phonetic equivalence to “pseudonym” (it’s a many-masked name posing with every inch of its being as a non-entity). Also apposite to this suggested style is the following song line by John Orth: “little dipper, tiara shine, songbird shivery, thin thin dime, smoke like ribbons i s pu l l e d”. Twinkles, bird tweets, subtle vibrations, and the ethereal attenuation of smoke delivered by a thin, diminishing, echoic voice; I lack the eloquence to name the common denominator linking and layering the multiple modalities at work, but with so many of these examples there must be a school of thought behind them (one that describes how to cram associated meanings into tight spaces in diverse ways; is this a form of “compression”?). Is even this expanded notion merely strange multiple-entendre or simply a breed of cryptography (or even just a general element of poetry)? I find the process of creating such works intriguing and somewhat of the character of a Borgesian aleph—a single point from which you can view all points, even yourself. If you don’t know the answer to my question, I’d also be interested in reading short sections, sentences, or titles you take to be paragons of a cryptically sententious style provided you include an accompanying quick analysis. Thanks.

 

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with so many of these examples there must be a school of thought behind them (one that describes how to cram associated meanings into tight spaces in diverse ways; is this a form of “compression”?)

Yes it is.

I find the process of creating such works intriguing and somewhat of the character of a Borgesian aleph—a single point from which you can view all points, even yourself.

Yes, but Borges could never write in such a fashion. He was too entranced by the possibilities of 'seeming'. An aleph indeed...

 

[psood0nym]

Thanks for the confirmation; I'll start looking into compression. Is most of the literature on the subject concerned with prose? I assume it would be naturally, but if you or anyone out there should know of a treatment of the technique of compression that focuses on the more generally applicable (to poetry, music, film) psychological processes involved, I'd appreciate it if you chimed in. Perhaps compression in semiotics is what I'm searching for?... if such a thing exists.