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... Frost's skilled effects would be lost to a reader who , scanning a Frost poem or reading it aloud , distorted its rhythms to fit the words exactly to the meter . With rare exceptions , a good poem can be read and scanned the way we ...
... Frost's skilled effects would be lost to a reader who , scanning a Frost poem or reading it aloud , distorted its rhythms to fit the words exactly to the meter . With rare exceptions , a good poem can be read and scanned the way we ...
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... Frost ( 1874-1963 ) * DESIGN I found a dimpled spider , fat and white , On a white heal - all , holding up a moth ... Frost's " Design " " I always wanted to be very observing , " Robert Frost once said , after reading his poem " Design ...
... Frost ( 1874-1963 ) * DESIGN I found a dimpled spider , fat and white , On a white heal - all , holding up a moth ... Frost's " Design " " I always wanted to be very observing , " Robert Frost once said , after reading his poem " Design ...
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... Frost : A Living Voice . Amherst : U of Massachusetts P , 1974 . Poirier , Richard . Robert Frost : The Work of Knowing . New York : Oxford UP , 1977 . Squires , Radcliffe . The Major Themes of Robert Frost . Ann Arbor : U of Michigan P ...
... Frost : A Living Voice . Amherst : U of Massachusetts P , 1974 . Poirier , Richard . Robert Frost : The Work of Knowing . New York : Oxford UP , 1977 . Squires , Radcliffe . The Major Themes of Robert Frost . Ann Arbor : U of Michigan P ...
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