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... QUESTIONS 5 1. Imagine the scene Jean Toomer describes . Which particulars most vividly strike the mind's eye ? 2. What kind of image is silent swinging ? 3. Read the poem aloud . Notice especially the effect of the words sound of steel ...
... QUESTIONS 5 1. Imagine the scene Jean Toomer describes . Which particulars most vividly strike the mind's eye ? 2. What kind of image is silent swinging ? 3. Read the poem aloud . Notice especially the effect of the words sound of steel ...
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... QUESTIONS 5 The following nit - picking questions are intended to help you see exactly what makes these two open form poems by Crane and Whitman so different in their music . 1. What devices of sound occur in Whitman's phrase silvery ...
... QUESTIONS 5 The following nit - picking questions are intended to help you see exactly what makes these two open form poems by Crane and Whitman so different in their music . 1. What devices of sound occur in Whitman's phrase silvery ...
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X. J. Kennedy. QUESTIONS 1. What do you take to be the setting of this poem ? Is this Broadway , New York ? Point to ... QUESTION 5 Here is a fresh contemporary version of Hunt's " Rondeau " that yanks open the form of the rimed original ...
X. J. Kennedy. QUESTIONS 1. What do you take to be the setting of this poem ? Is this Broadway , New York ? Point to ... QUESTION 5 Here is a fresh contemporary version of Hunt's " Rondeau " that yanks open the form of the rimed original ...
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