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... death is conveyed ; the abstraction " death " is understood through the senses . To render the abstract in concrete terms is what poets often try to do ; in this attempt , an image can be valuable . - An image may occur in a single word ...
... death is conveyed ; the abstraction " death " is understood through the senses . To render the abstract in concrete terms is what poets often try to do ; in this attempt , an image can be valuable . - An image may occur in a single word ...
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... Death , he taketh all away , but them he cannot take . Dudley Fitts ( 1903-1968 ) ELEGY ON HERAKLEITOS One brought me the news of your death , O Herakleitos my friend , And I wept for you , remembering How often we had watched the sun ...
... Death , he taketh all away , but them he cannot take . Dudley Fitts ( 1903-1968 ) ELEGY ON HERAKLEITOS One brought me the news of your death , O Herakleitos my friend , And I wept for you , remembering How often we had watched the sun ...
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... death . Apparently , this great creative outburst was triggered off by nursing his brother Tom through his final illness . But if Tom's death were the cause , Keats's own may have been the ultimate effect . He had , that is , pushed death ...
... death . Apparently , this great creative outburst was triggered off by nursing his brother Tom through his final illness . But if Tom's death were the cause , Keats's own may have been the ultimate effect . He had , that is , pushed death ...
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