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X. J. Kennedy. He would adore My gifts instead of Me , And rest in Nature , not the God of Nature : So both should losers be . Yet let him keep the rest , But keep them with repining restlessness ; Let him be rich and weary , that at ...
X. J. Kennedy. He would adore My gifts instead of Me , And rest in Nature , not the God of Nature : So both should losers be . Yet let him keep the rest , But keep them with repining restlessness ; Let him be rich and weary , that at ...
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... Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night . God said , Let Newton be ! and all was light . QUESTIONS 1. What patterns of alliteration and assonance does Pope employ ? 2. How are they useful to his poem ? J. C. Squire ( 1884–1958 ) IT ...
... Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night . God said , Let Newton be ! and all was light . QUESTIONS 1. What patterns of alliteration and assonance does Pope employ ? 2. How are they useful to his poem ? J. C. Squire ( 1884–1958 ) IT ...
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... nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing , But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make Of hammered gold and gold enameling To keep a drowsy Emperor awake ; Or set upon a golden bough to sing To lords and ladies of ...
... nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing , But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make Of hammered gold and gold enameling To keep a drowsy Emperor awake ; Or set upon a golden bough to sing To lords and ladies of ...
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