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... called rising meters because their movement rises from unstressed syllable ( or syllables ) to stress ; trochaic and dactylic meters are called falling . In the twentieth century , the bouncing meters - - anapestic and dactylic have ...
... called rising meters because their movement rises from unstressed syllable ( or syllables ) to stress ; trochaic and dactylic meters are called falling . In the twentieth century , the bouncing meters - - anapestic and dactylic have ...
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... called himself a " synecdochist . " Frost explained : " Always a larger significance . A little thing touches a larger thing . " This power of suggestion that a symbol contains is , perhaps , its greatest advantage . Sometimes , as in ...
... called himself a " synecdochist . " Frost explained : " Always a larger significance . A little thing touches a larger thing . " This power of suggestion that a symbol contains is , perhaps , its greatest advantage . Sometimes , as in ...
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... called Hardy's writings " the mutterings of the village atheist . " See other poems by Hardy ( particularly " Four Satires of Circumstance , " page 323 ) . What do you think Chesterton might have meant ? Can " The Oxen " be called a ...
... called Hardy's writings " the mutterings of the village atheist . " See other poems by Hardy ( particularly " Four Satires of Circumstance , " page 323 ) . What do you think Chesterton might have meant ? Can " The Oxen " be called a ...
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