Acknowledgment -- Reference Abbreviations -- Numerical References To Poems In The Menschheitsdämmerung -- I. The Critical View Of Form In Expressionist Poetry -- 1. Introduction -- 2. "Form" As A Motif In The Menschheitsdämmerung -- 3. Critical Views On Form In Expressionism -- 4. Current Views On Form In Expressionism -- 5. The Problems Of Expressionist Form -- 6. Critical Utility Of Such A Survey -- 7. State Of Form Study In Expressionist Research -- Ii. Who Or What Is Expressionism? -- 1. The Problem Of 'Expressionism' -- 2. Attempts At Definition -- 3. The Menschheitsdämmerung As A Basis For Form Study -- 4. Conclusion -- Iii. The Use Of Conventional Verse Elements In The Menschheitsdämmerung -- 1. Conventional Verse Elements -- 2. The Use Of The Stanza In The Menschheitsdämmerung -- 3. The Use Of Meter In The Menschheitsdämmerung -- 4. The Use Of Rhyme, Assonance And Alliteration In The Menschheitsdämmerung -- Iv. Interpretive Guidelines -- 1. The Use Of Formal Elements In Expressionist Lyrics -- 2. Some Popular Verse Elements And Verse Forms -- 3. The Formal Principle Of Unresolved Tension -- 4. Perspective: Post-Expressionist Formal Tendencies -- Bibliography -- Key To Poem Numbers And Index.