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... experience of looking at daffodils and the finished poem . We need not deny that a poet's experience can contribute to a poem nor that the emotion in the poem can indeed be the poet's . Still , to write a good poem one has to do more ...
... experience of looking at daffodils and the finished poem . We need not deny that a poet's experience can contribute to a poem nor that the emotion in the poem can indeed be the poet's . Still , to write a good poem one has to do more ...
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... experience : emerging one day from a train in the Paris subway ( Métro ) , he beheld " suddenly a beautiful face ... experience . Often this experience is a sight ( visual imagery , as in Pound's poem ) , but it may be a sound ( auditory ...
... experience : emerging one day from a train in the Paris subway ( Métro ) , he beheld " suddenly a beautiful face ... experience . Often this experience is a sight ( visual imagery , as in Pound's poem ) , but it may be a sound ( auditory ...
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... experience , sometimes in becoming a poem the experience will " suffer a sea change / Into something rich and strange " ( like the drowned man's bones in the song in Shakespeare's Tempest ) . You have to leave room for your imagina ...
... experience , sometimes in becoming a poem the experience will " suffer a sea change / Into something rich and strange " ( like the drowned man's bones in the song in Shakespeare's Tempest ) . You have to leave room for your imagina ...
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