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... begin and end . Some writers prefer to note line - breaks without diagonals , just by keeping the initial capital letter of a line ( if there is any ) : " fat and white , On a white heal - all ... BEGIN 489 BEFORE YOU BEGIN.
... begin and end . Some writers prefer to note line - breaks without diagonals , just by keeping the initial capital letter of a line ( if there is any ) : " fat and white , On a white heal - all ... BEGIN 489 BEFORE YOU BEGIN.
Page 498
... begin ? Some poets begin with some- thing to say , then strive for the best way of saying it . Others start with nothing much in mind . In the grip of strong but perhaps woolly and indefinite feelings , they play around with words until ...
... begin ? Some poets begin with some- thing to say , then strive for the best way of saying it . Others start with nothing much in mind . In the grip of strong but perhaps woolly and indefinite feelings , they play around with words until ...
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... begin with an idea or an emotion , a rhythm or an image , a phrase or a line . What matters is that , somehow , you begin . Plunge in and blunder about . Why be afraid of a blank sheet of paper ? You're writing only a first draft . No ...
... begin with an idea or an emotion , a rhythm or an image , a phrase or a line . What matters is that , somehow , you begin . Plunge in and blunder about . Why be afraid of a blank sheet of paper ? You're writing only a first draft . No ...
Contents
Reading a Poem | 1 |
NARRATIVE POETRY | 8 |
THE PERSON IN THE POEM | 19 |
Copyright | |
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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