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... close to ground . I see the blade , Blood - stained , continue cutting weeds and shade . QUESTIONS 5 1. Imagine the scene Jean Toomer describes . Which particulars most vividly strike the mind's eye ? 2. What kind of image is silent ...
... close to ground . I see the blade , Blood - stained , continue cutting weeds and shade . QUESTIONS 5 1. Imagine the scene Jean Toomer describes . Which particulars most vividly strike the mind's eye ? 2. What kind of image is silent ...
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... Close to the sun in lonely lands , Ringed with the azure world , he stands . The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls ; He watches from his mountain walls , And like a thunderbolt he falls . This brief poem is rich in figurative language ...
... Close to the sun in lonely lands , Ringed with the azure world , he stands . The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls ; He watches from his mountain walls , And like a thunderbolt he falls . This brief poem is rich in figurative language ...
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... close to me as the shirt on my back . " If this is the idea and the poem is supposed to be a love poem , how precisely is its attitude expressed ? ( 1898 ) William McGonagall ( 1830 ? - 1902 ) THE ALBION BATTLESHIP Calamity ' Twas in ...
... close to me as the shirt on my back . " If this is the idea and the poem is supposed to be a love poem , how precisely is its attitude expressed ? ( 1898 ) William McGonagall ( 1830 ? - 1902 ) THE ALBION BATTLESHIP Calamity ' Twas in ...
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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