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... poet's paint - they are his musical notes . Some- times he wants the reader to look past the words and directly into the life he is portraying , and sometimes he seems to call atten- tion - to say , " Notice the words , see how the mind ...
... poet's paint - they are his musical notes . Some- times he wants the reader to look past the words and directly into the life he is portraying , and sometimes he seems to call atten- tion - to say , " Notice the words , see how the mind ...
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... poet of his century to advance the art of his day by adapting metrical verse to the spoken language . The tendency of scholars in trying to trace literary developments is to see trends more distinctly than the poets acting out the ...
... poet of his century to advance the art of his day by adapting metrical verse to the spoken language . The tendency of scholars in trying to trace literary developments is to see trends more distinctly than the poets acting out the ...
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... poet who finds rhyme congenial to his style . Perhaps the most concise way of illustrating how the end rhyme works ... poet lies ; Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces . ' So should my papers yellow'd with their age Be scorn ...
... poet who finds rhyme congenial to his style . Perhaps the most concise way of illustrating how the end rhyme works ... poet lies ; Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces . ' So should my papers yellow'd with their age Be scorn ...
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PURPOSE AND FORM | 15 |
Ben Jonson 323 | 27 |
Lyrical and Narrative | 28 |
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allusion arrangement attitude beauty become begins called character comes connotation create dark death describe effect emotional English example experience Explain expression eyes face fact fall feel figurative give given hand head heart human idea imagery images impression involved ironic irony kind language leaves less light literal live look meaning meter mind move nature never night notice objects once passed pattern person picture play poem poet poet's poetry QUESTIONS reader reading repetition response rhyme rhythm Robert seems sense sleep song sound speak speaker speech stand stanza statement story stressed suggest syllables symbols tell thee things thou thought tone tree true trying turned understand verse voice words writer