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... Give her the gun , Bud , he needs a taste of his own bumper . Then the usher came out and got into the act : Said , Pull her up , pull her up a bit , we need this space , sir . 5 Said , For God's sake , is this still a free country or ...
... Give her the gun , Bud , he needs a taste of his own bumper . Then the usher came out and got into the act : Said , Pull her up , pull her up a bit , we need this space , sir . 5 Said , For God's sake , is this still a free country or ...
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... give his crown , His arms might do what this has done . It was my heaven's extremest sphere , The pale which held that lovely deer ; My joy , my grief , my hope , my love , Did all within this circle move ! A narrow compass ! and yet ...
... give his crown , His arms might do what this has done . It was my heaven's extremest sphere , The pale which held that lovely deer ; My joy , my grief , my hope , my love , Did all within this circle move ! A narrow compass ! and yet ...
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... give reasons for excellence in poetry is harder than to give reasons for failure in poetry ( so often due to familiar , old - hat sorts of imprecision and sentimen- tality ) . A bad poem tends to be stereotyped , an excellent poem ...
... give reasons for excellence in poetry is harder than to give reasons for failure in poetry ( so often due to familiar , old - hat sorts of imprecision and sentimen- tality ) . A bad poem tends to be stereotyped , an excellent poem ...
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