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... kind of poem shows no sign that its author has ever taken a hard look at any particular concrete objects that can be tasted , handled , and felt . It employs loosely and thoughtlessly the most ab- stract of words : love , beauty , life ...
... kind of poem shows no sign that its author has ever taken a hard look at any particular concrete objects that can be tasted , handled , and felt . It employs loosely and thoughtlessly the most ab- stract of words : love , beauty , life ...
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... kind of singing . One kind of everlasting monument is a great poem . To study masterpieces of poetry is the only " singing school " - the only way to learn to write a poem . We have no more than skimmed through a few of this poem's sug ...
... kind of singing . One kind of everlasting monument is a great poem . To study masterpieces of poetry is the only " singing school " - the only way to learn to write a poem . We have no more than skimmed through a few of this poem's sug ...
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... kind of experience - and one should be able to manipulate these experiences with an informed and intelligent mind . I think that personal experience shouldn't be a kind of shut box and mirror - looking narcissistic experience . I ...
... kind of experience - and one should be able to manipulate these experiences with an informed and intelligent mind . I think that personal experience shouldn't be a kind of shut box and mirror - looking narcissistic experience . 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