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... English poets , with their standard figures of speech ( " whale - road " for the sea , " ring - giver " for a ruler ) ; makers of folk ballads who , no less than neoclassicists , love fixed epithet - noun combinations ( " milk - white ...
... English poets , with their standard figures of speech ( " whale - road " for the sea , " ring - giver " for a ruler ) ; makers of folk ballads who , no less than neoclassicists , love fixed epithet - noun combinations ( " milk - white ...
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... English can readily provide . ( In Italian , according to an exaggerated report , practically everything rimes . ) In the following English sonnet , sometimes called a Shakespearean sonnet , the rimes cohere in four clusters : a b a b ...
... English can readily provide . ( In Italian , according to an exaggerated report , practically everything rimes . ) In the following English sonnet , sometimes called a Shakespearean sonnet , the rimes cohere in four clusters : a b a b ...
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X. J. Kennedy. Substituting English words for ideograms , the poem becomes : man leisure cassia flower fall quiet night spring mountain empty moon rise startle mountain bird at times sing spring stream middle Even without the aid of English ...
X. J. Kennedy. Substituting English words for ideograms , the poem becomes : man leisure cassia flower fall quiet night spring mountain empty moon rise startle mountain bird at times sing spring stream middle Even without the aid of English ...
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