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... beginning - verse " - perhaps because the form may have originated in a game . Players , given a haiku , were supposed to extend its three lines into a longer poem . Haiku ( the word can also be plural ) tend to consist mainly of ...
... beginning - verse " - perhaps because the form may have originated in a game . Players , given a haiku , were supposed to extend its three lines into a longer poem . Haiku ( the word can also be plural ) tend to consist mainly of ...
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... beginning of the poem and its ending ? 3. G. K. Chesterton , writing as a defender of Christian faith , called Hardy's writings " the mutterings of the village atheist . " See other poems by Hardy ( particularly " Four Satires of ...
... beginning of the poem and its ending ? 3. G. K. Chesterton , writing as a defender of Christian faith , called Hardy's writings " the mutterings of the village atheist . " See other poems by Hardy ( particularly " Four Satires of ...
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... beginning of a sentence in the original : The color white preoccupies Frost in his description fat and white , / On a white heal- of the spider all . . . . " 11 · • Surely there's no need for an initial ellipsis , though , if you begin ...
... beginning of a sentence in the original : The color white preoccupies Frost in his description fat and white , / On a white heal- of the spider all . . . . " 11 · • Surely there's no need for an initial ellipsis , though , if you begin ...
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