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... epigram . In poetry , however , an epigram is a form : " A short poem ending in a witty or ingenious turn of thought , to which the rest of the composition is intended to lead up " ( according to the Oxford English Dictionary ) . Often ...
... epigram . In poetry , however , an epigram is a form : " A short poem ending in a witty or ingenious turn of thought , to which the rest of the composition is intended to lead up " ( according to the Oxford English Dictionary ) . Often ...
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... EPIGRAM ( 1793 ) Her whole life is an epigram : smack smooth , and neatly penned , perfectly smooth Platted quite neat to catch applause , with a sliding noose at the end . plaited , woven E. E. Cummings ( 1894-1962 ) * . A POLITICIAN a ...
... EPIGRAM ( 1793 ) Her whole life is an epigram : smack smooth , and neatly penned , perfectly smooth Platted quite neat to catch applause , with a sliding noose at the end . plaited , woven E. E. Cummings ( 1894-1962 ) * . A POLITICIAN a ...
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... Epigram Rewrite any of the preceding epigrams , taking them out of rime ( if they are in rime ) and adding a few more words to them . See if your revisions have nearly the same effect as the originals . EXERCISE : Reading for Couplets ...
... Epigram Rewrite any of the preceding epigrams , taking them out of rime ( if they are in rime ) and adding a few more words to them . See if your revisions have nearly the same effect as the originals . EXERCISE : Reading for Couplets ...
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