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... words . THE RIGHT WORD Unable to fill a two - syllable gap in an unfinished line that went " The seal's wide - gaze toward Paradise , " the American poet Hart ... Words and Their Order THE RIGHT WORD Words and Their Order THE RIGHT WORD.
... words . THE RIGHT WORD Unable to fill a two - syllable gap in an unfinished line that went " The seal's wide - gaze toward Paradise , " the American poet Hart ... Words and Their Order THE RIGHT WORD Words and Their Order THE RIGHT WORD.
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... words once had but have lost . " Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact , ” said Emer- son in The Conduct of Life , “ if traced to its root , is found to be borrowed from some material appearance . Right means ...
... words once had but have lost . " Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact , ” said Emer- son in The Conduct of Life , “ if traced to its root , is found to be borrowed from some material appearance . Right means ...
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... Word " stands fourth in a series titled " Four Love Poems . " Sum up what happens in this poem . Do you take this to be a literal account of an execution ? 2. Which words embody concrete things and show us physical actions ? Which words ...
... Word " stands fourth in a series titled " Four Love Poems . " Sum up what happens in this poem . Do you take this to be a literal account of an execution ? 2. Which words embody concrete things and show us physical actions ? Which words ...
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