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... verse , or at least did not know anything before the times of the schools , where they were taught hymns . One ... verse . There was no sense in the verses , they were made for the sake of rime - " Ngumbe na - penda chumbe , Malaya mbaya ...
... verse , or at least did not know anything before the times of the schools , where they were taught hymns . One ... verse . There was no sense in the verses , they were made for the sake of rime - " Ngumbe na - penda chumbe , Malaya mbaya ...
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... verse forms in found materials : ode , sonnet , epigram , haiku , free verse . Such finds made me realize that these forms are not mere artifices , but shapes that language naturally takes when carrying powerful thoughts or feelings.3 ...
... verse forms in found materials : ode , sonnet , epigram , haiku , free verse . Such finds made me realize that these forms are not mere artifices , but shapes that language naturally takes when carrying powerful thoughts or feelings.3 ...
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... verse easy to write . On the contrary , if he cares about capturing his reader's attention and keeping it , the poet working in open form probably has to work harder than the metrical poet . Lacking the powerful ( some would say hyp ...
... verse easy to write . On the contrary , if he cares about capturing his reader's attention and keeping it , the poet working in open form probably has to work harder than the metrical poet . Lacking the powerful ( some would say hyp ...
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