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... keep the rest , But keep them with repining restlessness ; Let him be rich and weary , that at least , If goodness lead him not , yet weariness May toss him to My breast . 15 20 To sum up : figures of speech are not to be taken ...
... keep the rest , But keep them with repining restlessness ; Let him be rich and weary , that at least , If goodness lead him not , yet weariness May toss him to My breast . 15 20 To sum up : figures of speech are not to be taken ...
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... keep the cesura ( see p . 145 ) shifting about from place to place - now happening early in a line , now happening late and at times unexpectedly to hurl in a second or third cesura . Try working through George Crabbe's lines ( on p ...
... keep the cesura ( see p . 145 ) shifting about from place to place - now happening early in a line , now happening late and at times unexpectedly to hurl in a second or third cesura . Try working through George Crabbe's lines ( on p ...
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... keep chasing them , so the mamas keep hollering , and papa flings his newspaper outward , in disgust with discipline . Randall Jarrell ( 1914-1965 ) THE DEATH OF THE BALL TURRET GUNNER From my mother's sleep I fell into the State And I ...
... keep chasing them , so the mamas keep hollering , and papa flings his newspaper outward , in disgust with discipline . Randall Jarrell ( 1914-1965 ) THE DEATH OF THE BALL TURRET GUNNER From my mother's sleep I fell into the State And I ...
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