Poems in English: 1530 - 1940 |
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1530 - 1940 David Daiches. imagery is itself built around a number of leading ideas , and the quality of the imagery changes only as one idea gives way to another . The poem opens with a turning away from vain human ambitions to the ...
1530 - 1940 David Daiches. imagery is itself built around a number of leading ideas , and the quality of the imagery changes only as one idea gives way to another . The poem opens with a turning away from vain human ambitions to the ...
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... imagery becomes more personal and urgent , the tone more tense , the thought more searching , until we reach the packed ironical lines about the grave . ( Note that a poet can be serious and ironical simultaneously : the ironic note in ...
... imagery becomes more personal and urgent , the tone more tense , the thought more searching , until we reach the packed ironical lines about the grave . ( Note that a poet can be serious and ironical simultaneously : the ironic note in ...
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... imagery achieves the tone and quality appropriate to the theme . L'Allegro opens with nine violent lines quite different in mood and move- ment from the lines that follow . It is a crashing of chords , after which comes ( following line ...
... imagery achieves the tone and quality appropriate to the theme . L'Allegro opens with nine violent lines quite different in mood and move- ment from the lines that follow . It is a crashing of chords , after which comes ( following line ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
HENRY HOWARD EARL OF SURREY 15161547 | 12 |
Come sleep O sleep the certain knot of peace 15 Stella oft sees the very face of woe | 18 |
Copyright | |
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A. E. Housman aesthetic distance auld lang syne beauty beneath birds bless breast breath bright charms Danny Deever dark dead dear death doth earth emotion English English poetry eyes face fair fate fear flowers give grace grave green Grongar Hill hair hand hath head hear heart Heaven imagery images kind kings Lady of Shalott leaves light live look Lord lovers Lycidas mind mood morning Mother Muse ne'er never night nymph o'er once pain passion pleasure poem poet poetic poetry praise pride rhyme rise rose round Scholar Gipsy sense shade shine sigh sing sleep smile song sonnet soul sound spirit stanza stars sweet sylphs symbol tears Thalestris thee thine things thought toil verse voice W. H. Auden weep wind wings youth ΙΟ ΙΟ