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... look at all the lonely people ! Ah , look at all the lonely people ! Eleanor Rigby Picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been , Lives in a dream , Waits at the window Wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door ...
... look at all the lonely people ! Ah , look at all the lonely people ! Eleanor Rigby Picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been , Lives in a dream , Waits at the window Wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door ...
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... look at it . It continues to look at you . Whether an object in literature is a symbol , part of an allegory , or no such thing at all , it has at least one sure meaning . Moby Dick is first a whale , the Boston Evening Transcript a ...
... look at it . It continues to look at you . Whether an object in literature is a symbol , part of an allegory , or no such thing at all , it has at least one sure meaning . Moby Dick is first a whale , the Boston Evening Transcript a ...
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... look , look in the mirror , O look in your distress ; Life remains a blessing Although you cannot bless . “ O stand , stand at the window As the tears scald and start ; You shall love your crooked neighbor With your crooked heart . " It ...
... look , look in the mirror , O look in your distress ; Life remains a blessing Although you cannot bless . “ O stand , stand at the window As the tears scald and start ; You shall love your crooked neighbor With your crooked heart . " It ...
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