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... comes from two Greek words meaning shadow - tail ) . We tend to forget that words depend on what is tangible . As the English critic H. Coombes has remarked in Literature and Criticism , We use a word like powerful without feeling that ...
... comes from two Greek words meaning shadow - tail ) . We tend to forget that words depend on what is tangible . As the English critic H. Coombes has remarked in Literature and Criticism , We use a word like powerful without feeling that ...
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... come from ? All the lonely people , Where do they all belong ? 15 5 10 Father McKenzie , Writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear , No one comes near Look at him working , Darning his socks in the night when there's nobody ...
... come from ? All the lonely people , Where do they all belong ? 15 5 10 Father McKenzie , Writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear , No one comes near Look at him working , Darning his socks in the night when there's nobody ...
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... comes as something taken for granted , a relief almost , in its mere statement and generalization , after the almost unbearable actuality and particularity of what has come before . And then this whole appalling categorical machinery of ...
... comes as something taken for granted , a relief almost , in its mere statement and generalization , after the almost unbearable actuality and particularity of what has come before . And then this whole appalling categorical machinery of ...
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