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Page 390
... stories of Spacemen or Martians are today , and Greek myth is particularly rich in natural symbolic meaning . Assum- ing that everyone knows the story of Helen and the Trojan war - a story that has long been , among other things , a ...
... stories of Spacemen or Martians are today , and Greek myth is particularly rich in natural symbolic meaning . Assum- ing that everyone knows the story of Helen and the Trojan war - a story that has long been , among other things , a ...
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... story . Although the term narrative is most often associated today with prose , and al- though character and story are staple materials of prose fiction , his- torically verse narrative is believed to be older than prose narrative . The ...
... story . Although the term narrative is most often associated today with prose , and al- though character and story are staple materials of prose fiction , his- torically verse narrative is believed to be older than prose narrative . The ...
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... story is told , stock descriptive phrases , or a refrain . The story is usually presented in a single dramatic scene or in a series of detached scenes rather than by consecutive narrative . The ballads seldom explain motives and seldom ...
... story is told , stock descriptive phrases , or a refrain . The story is usually presented in a single dramatic scene or in a series of detached scenes rather than by consecutive narrative . The ballads seldom explain motives and seldom ...
Contents
The Art of Reading Poetry 383 | 383 |
Versification 638 | 391 |
Transition to Poetry | 392 |
Copyright | |
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Common terms and phrases
A. E. HOUSMAN ANDREW MARVELL beauty birds boughs bright brown clouds cold cried dark dead death doth dream e. e. cummings earth elegy Euroclydon eyes fair fall fear feel fire flowers Goddamm gone grass green Gwendolyn Brooks hair hand happy hath hear heard heart heaven hill king Lady Langston Hughes leaves light live lonely lonnë look LOUIS MACNEICE Lycidas meaning mind Miniver moon morning mountains never night pale Patrick Spence poem poet poetry praise Prufrock rhyme round sang sigh silent sing sleep Slim snow song SONNET Sonnet 23 soul sound stanza stars sweet T. E. HULME T. S. Eliot tell thee things thou thought tree turn verse voice W. H. AUDEN walk weep WILLIAM WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS wind wings word Yeats young