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... better than crying ? Which word better fits the poem ? Why ? 3. What connections do you find between the last two lines and the rest of the poem ? To what are water that scarce could run and broad old cesspools ( lines 13 and 14 ) ...
... better than crying ? Which word better fits the poem ? Why ? 3. What connections do you find between the last two lines and the rest of the poem ? To what are water that scarce could run and broad old cesspools ( lines 13 and 14 ) ...
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... better text . In relatively few and simple forms clearly indebted to the hymns she heard in church , Dickinson succeeded in being a true visionary and a poet of colossal originality . Emanuel di Pasquale Emanuel di Pasquale , born in ...
... better text . In relatively few and simple forms clearly indebted to the hymns she heard in church , Dickinson succeeded in being a true visionary and a poet of colossal originality . Emanuel di Pasquale Emanuel di Pasquale , born in ...
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... better things than you would all by yourself . " Far from being a coldly rational process of filling a form with wordage , to write a riming poem is to pit yourself against ( or to enter into a playful relationship with ) some of the ...
... better things than you would all by yourself . " Far from being a coldly rational process of filling a form with wordage , to write a riming poem is to pit yourself against ( or to enter into a playful relationship with ) some of the ...
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