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... give reasons for excel- lence in poetry is harder than to give reasons for failure in poetry ( so often due to familiar kinds of imprecision and sentimentality ) . A bad poem tends to be stereotyped , an excellent poem unique . In ...
... give reasons for excel- lence in poetry is harder than to give reasons for failure in poetry ( so often due to familiar kinds of imprecision and sentimentality ) . A bad poem tends to be stereotyped , an excellent poem unique . In ...
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... give you a reaction . If you can enlist such a willing reader , ask : What isn't clear to you ? 4. If you ( or your willing reader ) should find any places that aren't readily understandable , single them out for rewriting . After all ...
... give you a reaction . If you can enlist such a willing reader , ask : What isn't clear to you ? 4. If you ( or your willing reader ) should find any places that aren't readily understandable , single them out for rewriting . After all ...
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... give them their due . Document everything you take . Identify the writer by name ; cite the very book , magazine ... give only enough information to help a reader locate it in your Works Cited . Usually , you can just give ( in ...
... give them their due . Document everything you take . Identify the writer by name ; cite the very book , magazine ... give only enough information to help a reader locate it in your Works Cited . Usually , you can just give ( in ...
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