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... eyes , and I'll pledge my love to you with my eyes ; Or leave a kiss within the goblet , that's all I'll want to drink . The passage is closer to poetry , but still has a distance to go . At least we now have a figure of speech the ...
... eyes , and I'll pledge my love to you with my eyes ; Or leave a kiss within the goblet , that's all I'll want to drink . The passage is closer to poetry , but still has a distance to go . At least we now have a figure of speech the ...
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... eyes , and I will pledge with mine , 7 7 Or leave a kiss but in the cup , and I'll not ask for wine . In this memorable form , the poem is still alive today . Ben Jonson ( 1573 ? - 1637 ) * TO CELIA 1616 Drink to me only with thine eyes ...
... eyes , and I will pledge with mine , 7 7 Or leave a kiss but in the cup , and I'll not ask for wine . In this memorable form , the poem is still alive today . Ben Jonson ( 1573 ? - 1637 ) * TO CELIA 1616 Drink to me only with thine eyes ...
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... eyes will slay me . Shut them tight . Against their glow , I can't hold out for long . Your eyes present a pin to my balloon : One pointed look and I start growing small . . . . Since I escaped from love , I've grown so fat , I barely ...
... eyes will slay me . Shut them tight . Against their glow , I can't hold out for long . Your eyes present a pin to my balloon : One pointed look and I start growing small . . . . Since I escaped from love , I've grown so fat , I barely ...
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