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... hear the word prunes ? " most people replied , " dried up , " " wrinkled , " or ' constipated . " Dismayed , the packers hired an advertising agency to create a new image for prunes , in hopes of inducing new connotations . Soon ...
... hear the word prunes ? " most people replied , " dried up , " " wrinkled , " or ' constipated . " Dismayed , the packers hired an advertising agency to create a new image for prunes , in hopes of inducing new connotations . Soon ...
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... hear- ing sounds but also the agreeable surprise of finding that things not usually associated had been brought together . More powerful when in the company of meaning , not apart from it , the sounds of consonants and vowels can ...
... hear- ing sounds but also the agreeable surprise of finding that things not usually associated had been brought together . More powerful when in the company of meaning , not apart from it , the sounds of consonants and vowels can ...
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... Hear me , my warriors , my heart is sick and sad : Our chiefs are killed , The old men all are dead , It is cold and we have no blankets . The little children freeze to death . Hear me , my warriors , my heart is sick and sad : From ...
... Hear me , my warriors , my heart is sick and sad : Our chiefs are killed , The old men all are dead , It is cold and we have no blankets . The little children freeze to death . Hear me , my warriors , my heart is sick and sad : From ...
Contents
Entrances | 1 |
Figures of Speech | 2 |
The Person in the Poem | 8 |
Copyright | |
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Common terms and phrases
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