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... reader who had climbed cherry trees when he was small . To some extent , these associations are inevitable , even to be welcomed . But we need to distinguish between irrelevant , tangential responses and those the poem calls for . The ...
... reader who had climbed cherry trees when he was small . To some extent , these associations are inevitable , even to be welcomed . But we need to distinguish between irrelevant , tangential responses and those the poem calls for . The ...
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... reader's noticing some incongruity or discrepancy between two things . In verbal irony , there is a contrast between the speaker's words and his meaning ; in an ironic point of view , between the writer's attitude and those spoken by a ...
... reader's noticing some incongruity or discrepancy between two things . In verbal irony , there is a contrast between the speaker's words and his meaning ; in an ironic point of view , between the writer's attitude and those spoken by a ...
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... reader who seeks it for himself can expect to pan through much shale , such labor need not discourage him from prospecting . Only the naïve reader assumes , " This poem must be good , or else why would it appear in a leading magazine ...
... reader who seeks it for himself can expect to pan through much shale , such labor need not discourage him from prospecting . Only the naïve reader assumes , " This poem must be good , or else why would it appear in a leading magazine ...
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