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... DEAD 1960 Friend , on this scaffold Thomas More lies dead Who would not cut the Body from the Head . Herman Melville ( 1819-1891 ) THE PORTENT 1859 Hanging from the beam , Slowly swaying ( such the law ) , Gaunt the shadow on your green ...
... DEAD 1960 Friend , on this scaffold Thomas More lies dead Who would not cut the Body from the Head . Herman Melville ( 1819-1891 ) THE PORTENT 1859 Hanging from the beam , Slowly swaying ( such the law ) , Gaunt the shadow on your green ...
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... dead . Logres : name of an ancient British kingdom , according to the twelfth - century historian Geoffrey of ... dead to locusts . 3. Why are the suggestions inherent in the names of Arthur , Elaine , and Mordred more valuable to this ...
... dead . Logres : name of an ancient British kingdom , according to the twelfth - century historian Geoffrey of ... dead to locusts . 3. Why are the suggestions inherent in the names of Arthur , Elaine , and Mordred more valuable to this ...
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... dead , dead ere his prime , Young Lycidas , and hath not left his peer . dark immature 5 Lycidas . A monody is a song for a single voice , generally a lament . Milton's learned friend was Edward King , scholar and poet , a fellow ...
... dead , dead ere his prime , Young Lycidas , and hath not left his peer . dark immature 5 Lycidas . A monody is a song for a single voice , generally a lament . Milton's learned friend was Edward King , scholar and poet , a fellow ...
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