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... Close to the sun in lonely lands , Ringed with the azure world , he stands . The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls ; He watches from his mountain walls , And like a thunderbolt he falls . 3 6 This brief poem is rich in figurative language ...
... Close to the sun in lonely lands , Ringed with the azure world , he stands . The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls ; He watches from his mountain walls , And like a thunderbolt he falls . 3 6 This brief poem is rich in figurative language ...
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... close of day ; Rage , rage against the dying of the light . Though wise men at their end know dark is right , Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night . Good men , the last wave by , crying ...
... close of day ; Rage , rage against the dying of the light . Though wise men at their end know dark is right , Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night . Good men , the last wave by , crying ...
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... close the Valves of her attention - Like Stone - Thomas Hardy ( 1840-1928 ) CHANNEL FIRING That night your great guns , unawares , Shook all our coffins as we lay , And broke the chancel window - squares , We thought it was the Judgment ...
... close the Valves of her attention - Like Stone - Thomas Hardy ( 1840-1928 ) CHANNEL FIRING That night your great guns , unawares , Shook all our coffins as we lay , And broke the chancel window - squares , We thought it was the Judgment ...
Contents
Entrances | 1 |
Figures of Speech | 2 |
The Person in the Poem | 8 |
Copyright | |
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A. E. Housman Alexander Pope alliteration anthology attitude ballad bird Blake blue called cesura concrete Concrete poetry connotations couplet dance dark dead death denotation diction dream E. E. Cummings Eliot Emily Dickinson English eyes feel figures of speech following poem Frankie Gerard Manley Hopkins green hear heart Hurroo iambic imagery irony John Johnny kiss lady language light live look Lycidas lyric meaning metaphor meter Milton's mind myth never night open form paraphrase pattern pauses phrase poem aloud poet poet's poetry Pope prose QUESTIONS reader rhythm Robert Frost simile sing song sonnet sound speak speaker stanza stresses suggest sweet syllables symbol T. S. Eliot tell thee theme thing Thomas thou thought tone tree usually verse W. H. Auden Whitman William William Butler Yeats William Carlos Williams wind Wordsworth write Yeats