The Poet and the PoemA discussion of the poet's inherent attitudes, the more technical matters of verse writing, and the application of principles to actual practice. |
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... object to bed , bad or beads ; tin , tent ; lick , lacked ) . Some of the rhymes of Dylan Thomas , for example , are so distant they are out of my auditory range ; so while I don't object to them , I can't appreciate them . Since his ...
... object to bed , bad or beads ; tin , tent ; lick , lacked ) . Some of the rhymes of Dylan Thomas , for example , are so distant they are out of my auditory range ; so while I don't object to them , I can't appreciate them . Since his ...
Page 109
... object is complex by virtue of its innate ability to stand up and occupy space . Two artistic principles are involved . For the poem to stand alone , the poet must cut himself off from it , which means establishing a separate , larger ...
... object is complex by virtue of its innate ability to stand up and occupy space . Two artistic principles are involved . For the poem to stand alone , the poet must cut himself off from it , which means establishing a separate , larger ...
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... object . The object of the poem is what might once have been called its moral : conveying the sense of the un- satisfactory quality of experience as we too often know it and a vision of how it might be different - how the eye might be ...
... object . The object of the poem is what might once have been called its moral : conveying the sense of the un- satisfactory quality of experience as we too often know it and a vision of how it might be different - how the eye might be ...
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alliteration American anapests beat begins better bird buzzard century color complex conventional counterstatement couplet course critical dark death diction doublevision dramatic Dryden Dylan Thomas E. E. Cummings editors effect Eliot Elizabeth Bishop Emily Dickinson emotional English example experience fact feeling feminine rhymes free verse Frost give hand human humor iamb iambic iambic pentameter imagine imply kind language less light literary look magazines Marianne Moore mean metaphor meter metrical mind Miniver Miniver Cheevy moon mystery never Notice pattern pentameter perhaps phrase poem poet poet's poetic prose quatrain reader reason rhyme rhythm satire satirist seems sense sentence Shakespeare shape sleep sonnet sound spondees stanza statement stress suggest sure syllables symbols T. S. Eliot thing thought thump tion tone trochees values variety verse Westron words writing poetry Yeats