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... born in the Soho district of London and early in life was apprenticed to an engraver . Becoming a skilled craftsman , he earned his living illustrating books , among them Dante's Divine Comedy , Milton's poems , and the Book of Job . A ...
... born in the Soho district of London and early in life was apprenticed to an engraver . Becoming a skilled craftsman , he earned his living illustrating books , among them Dante's Divine Comedy , Milton's poems , and the Book of Job . A ...
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... born in Boston , the daughter of German immigrants who both taught at Boston University . The death of her father when the poet was eight came as a trauma from which she seems never quite to have recovered . As a scholarship - winning ...
... born in Boston , the daughter of German immigrants who both taught at Boston University . The death of her father when the poet was eight came as a trauma from which she seems never quite to have recovered . As a scholarship - winning ...
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... born into a rich country family , is remembered in England not only as a poet but also as a member of Parliament . In 1643 he hatched " Waller's Plot , " an attempt to turn London over to the exiled Charles I ; it failed , but ...
... born into a rich country family , is remembered in England not only as a poet but also as a member of Parliament . In 1643 he hatched " Waller's Plot , " an attempt to turn London over to the exiled Charles I ; it failed , but ...
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