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... effect different from that of wordless music : they go along with their music and , by making statements , add more meaning . The French poet Isidore Isou , founder of a literary movement called lettrisme , main- tained that poems can ...
... effect different from that of wordless music : they go along with their music and , by making statements , add more meaning . The French poet Isidore Isou , founder of a literary movement called lettrisme , main- tained that poems can ...
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... effect as the originals . EXERCISE : Reading for Couplets Read all the sonnets by Shakespeare in this book . How do the final couplets of some of them resemble epigrams ? Does this similarity diminish their effect of " seriousness ...
... effect as the originals . EXERCISE : Reading for Couplets Read all the sonnets by Shakespeare in this book . How do the final couplets of some of them resemble epigrams ? Does this similarity diminish their effect of " seriousness ...
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... effect you are after . Any evident attempt to defy convention calls attention to itself . Say " i think , therefore i am , " and you aren't necessarily being modest . The effect is as though you were to print the letter I in red . E. E. ...
... effect you are after . Any evident attempt to defy convention calls attention to itself . Say " i think , therefore i am , " and you aren't necessarily being modest . The effect is as though you were to print the letter I in red . E. E. ...
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