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... things ... that these words stand for . A good writer , said Thomas Carlyle , makes us aware of things : " Won- derful it is with what cutting words , now and then , he severs asunder the confusion ; shears it down , were it furlongs ...
... things ... that these words stand for . A good writer , said Thomas Carlyle , makes us aware of things : " Won- derful it is with what cutting words , now and then , he severs asunder the confusion ; shears it down , were it furlongs ...
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... things , macroscopic phenomena of some real importance , " the poem says , " the classical mechanics of design probably does operate - though in reverse , so far as the old Argument from Design is concerned ; but these little things , ...
... things , macroscopic phenomena of some real importance , " the poem says , " the classical mechanics of design probably does operate - though in reverse , so far as the old Argument from Design is concerned ; but these little things , ...
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... things , including those that we cannot help thinking beautiful : that are beautiful . By its direct , slow - speaking means , the poem builds toward its last nine lines , when the general resolves into the particular , divulging where ...
... things , including those that we cannot help thinking beautiful : that are beautiful . By its direct , slow - speaking means , the poem builds toward its last nine lines , when the general resolves into the particular , divulging where ...
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Entrances | 1 |
Figures of Speech | 2 |
The Person in the Poem | 8 |
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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