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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... suggests that death is weak , we find that it is the slave of mighty and dreadful powers , and if we had one moment ... suggesting the cramps and writhings of stage deaths at Machiavellian hands ; then war's slaughter ; then the ...
... suggests that death is weak , we find that it is the slave of mighty and dreadful powers , and if we had one moment ... suggesting the cramps and writhings of stage deaths at Machiavellian hands ; then war's slaughter ; then the ...
Page 132
... suggesting a low emotional pitch , as it were , and suggests the speaker will continue , as he began in the title , being very factual , specific , detailed . We don't expect high rhetoric or much passion from a man who begins by ...
... suggesting a low emotional pitch , as it were , and suggests the speaker will continue , as he began in the title , being very factual , specific , detailed . We don't expect high rhetoric or much passion from a man who begins by ...
Page 154
... suggesting the ugliness of our primal functions , in con- trast to what we imagine our lives to be . I take it that ... suggests the human reference with perhaps just a phrase somewhere ( " like me " ) to tip off , light up , all those ...
... suggesting the ugliness of our primal functions , in con- trast to what we imagine our lives to be . I take it that ... suggests the human reference with perhaps just a phrase somewhere ( " like me " ) to tip off , light up , all those ...
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