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... stand what the poem is saying and utter the poem as if you do , the temptation to fall into such a mechanical intonation should not occur . Observe the punctuation , making slight pauses for commas , longer pauses for full stops ...
... stand what the poem is saying and utter the poem as if you do , the temptation to fall into such a mechanical intonation should not occur . Observe the punctuation , making slight pauses for commas , longer pauses for full stops ...
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... STAND Dark house , by which once more I stand Here in the long unlovely street , Doors , where my heart was used to beat So quickly , waiting for a hand , 4 A hand that can be clasped no more Behold me 158 Rhythm GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS ...
... STAND Dark house , by which once more I stand Here in the long unlovely street , Doors , where my heart was used to beat So quickly , waiting for a hand , 4 A hand that can be clasped no more Behold me 158 Rhythm GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS ...
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... stand in the middle of a thing , but you cannot stand in the middle of this ; the sea has nothing to give but a well excavated grave . The firs stand in a procession , each with an emerald turkey - foot at the top , reserved as their ...
... stand in the middle of a thing , but you cannot stand in the middle of this ; the sea has nothing to give but a well excavated grave . The firs stand in a procession , each with an emerald turkey - foot at the top , reserved as their ...
Contents
Entrances | 1 |
Figures of Speech | 2 |
The Person in the Poem | 8 |
Copyright | |
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Common terms and phrases
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