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... Dream Deferred What happens to a dream deferred ? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun ? Or fester like a sore And then run ? Does it stink like rotten meat ? Or crust and sugar over like a syrupy sweet ? Maybe it just sags like a ...
... Dream Deferred What happens to a dream deferred ? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun ? Or fester like a sore And then run ? Does it stink like rotten meat ? Or crust and sugar over like a syrupy sweet ? Maybe it just sags like a ...
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... dream . Some of these as defined by Jung and others — might be figures such as the cruel mother ( Cinderella's stepmother , the White Goddess ) , the creature half human and half animal ( centaurs , satyrs , mermaids ) , the beautiful ...
... dream . Some of these as defined by Jung and others — might be figures such as the cruel mother ( Cinderella's stepmother , the White Goddess ) , the creature half human and half animal ( centaurs , satyrs , mermaids ) , the beautiful ...
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... dreams after his tribe had been given a District Commissioner . All poets are not so fond of the notion of great Memory ... Dream in Primitive Cultures ( London , 1935 ) , p . 24 . 8 Statements made on two different occasions , quoted by ...
... dreams after his tribe had been given a District Commissioner . All poets are not so fond of the notion of great Memory ... Dream in Primitive Cultures ( London , 1935 ) , p . 24 . 8 Statements made on two different occasions , quoted by ...
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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