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... COMPARE THEE TO a summer's DAY ? 1609 Shall I compare thee to a summer's day ? Thou art more lovely and more temperate . Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May , And summer's lease hath all too short a date . Sometime too hot the ...
... COMPARE THEE TO a summer's DAY ? 1609 Shall I compare thee to a summer's day ? Thou art more lovely and more temperate . Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May , And summer's lease hath all too short a date . Sometime too hot the ...
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... COMPARE THEE TO A SUMMER'S DAY ? 1976 Who says you're like one of the dog days ? You're nicer . And better . Even in May , the weather can be gray , And a summer sub - let doesn't last forever . Sometimes the sun's too hot ; Sometimes ...
... COMPARE THEE TO A SUMMER'S DAY ? 1976 Who says you're like one of the dog days ? You're nicer . And better . Even in May , the weather can be gray , And a summer sub - let doesn't last forever . Sometimes the sun's too hot ; Sometimes ...
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... compare William McGonagall's unintention- ally comic poem " The Albion Battleship Calamity " with John Milton's pro ... comparing and contrasting COMPARING AND CONTRASTING 485 COMPARING AND CONTRASTING.
... compare William McGonagall's unintention- ally comic poem " The Albion Battleship Calamity " with John Milton's pro ... comparing and contrasting COMPARING AND CONTRASTING 485 COMPARING AND CONTRASTING.
Contents
Reading a Poem | 1 |
NARRATIVE POETRY | 8 |
THE PERSON IN THE POEM | 19 |
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A. E. Housman alliteration aloud ballad beauty bird born called COMPARE connotations Copyright critic dark dead death dream E. E. Cummings Elegy Emily Dickinson English essay eyes Ezra Pound feel figures of speech flower Gerard Manley Hopkins haiku hand hear heart John Keats language light listen live look Lycidas lyric meaning metaphor meter Milton mind move myth never night open form paper pauses phrase play poem's poet poet's poetry prose QUESTIONS Randall Jarrell reader Reprinted by permission rhythm Richard Wilbur Robert Frost sense Shakespeare sing song sonnet soul sound spider stanza story suggestions sweet syllables symbol T. S. Eliot tell thee theme things Thomas thou thought translation tree University verse W. H. Auden Whitman William Butler Yeats William Carlos Williams wind words wrote York