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... death is conveyed ; the abstraction " death " is understood through the senses . To render the abstract in concrete terms is what poets often try to do ; in this attempt , an image can be valuable . An image may occur in a single word ...
... death is conveyed ; the abstraction " death " is understood through the senses . To render the abstract in concrete terms is what poets often try to do ; in this attempt , an image can be valuable . An image may occur in a single word ...
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... Death ? There was a Birth , certainly , We had evidence and no doubt . I had seen birth and death , But had thought they were different ; this Birth was Hard and bitter agony for us , like Death , our death . We returned to our places ...
... Death ? There was a Birth , certainly , We had evidence and no doubt . I had seen birth and death , But had thought they were different ; this Birth was Hard and bitter agony for us , like Death , our death . We returned to our places ...
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... death , that white piece of rigid satin cloth is . And assorted characters of death and blight is , like so many things in this poem , sharply ambiguous : a mixed bunch of actors or diverse representative signs . The tone of the phrase ...
... death , that white piece of rigid satin cloth is . And assorted characters of death and blight is , like so many things in this poem , sharply ambiguous : a mixed bunch of actors or diverse representative signs . The tone of the phrase ...
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