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... eyes shine like a chipmunk's " or " Her chipmunk eyes shine " if he can say " Her chipmunkeyeshine " or " Her chipmunkily - shiny eyes . " But a master poet- even experi- ment - loving E. E. Cummings seems to regard an invented word as ...
... eyes shine like a chipmunk's " or " Her chipmunk eyes shine " if he can say " Her chipmunkeyeshine " or " Her chipmunkily - shiny eyes . " But a master poet- even experi- ment - loving E. E. Cummings seems to regard an invented word as ...
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... eyes , and I'll pledge my love to you with my my eyes ; Or leave a kiss within the goblet , that's all I'll want to drink . The passage is closer to poetry , but still has a distance to go . At least we now have a figure of speech - the ...
... eyes , and I'll pledge my love to you with my my eyes ; Or leave a kiss within the goblet , that's all I'll want to drink . The passage is closer to poetry , but still has a distance to go . At least we now have a figure of speech - the ...
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... eyes " and the exactly counted kisses , She took me to her elfin grot , And there she wept and sighed full sore , And there I shut her wild wild eyes With kisses four . was scrapped in favor of : She took me to her elfin grot , And ...
... eyes " and the exactly counted kisses , She took me to her elfin grot , And there she wept and sighed full sore , And there I shut her wild wild eyes With kisses four . was scrapped in favor of : She took me to her elfin grot , And ...
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