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... hand , or seemed to leap— He must have given the hand . However it was , Neither refused the meeting . But the hand ! The boy's first outcry was a rueful laugh , As he swung toward them holding up the hand Half in appeal , but half as ...
... hand , or seemed to leap— He must have given the hand . However it was , Neither refused the meeting . But the hand ! The boy's first outcry was a rueful laugh , As he swung toward them holding up the hand Half in appeal , but half as ...
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... hand , " and mean that she lent her entire presence . Similarly , Milton in " Lycidas " refers to greedy clergymen as " blind mouths . " Another kind of metonymy is the transferred epithet : a device of emphasis in which the poet ...
... hand , " and mean that she lent her entire presence . Similarly , Milton in " Lycidas " refers to greedy clergymen as " blind mouths . " Another kind of metonymy is the transferred epithet : a device of emphasis in which the poet ...
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... hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry ? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes ? On what wings dare he aspire ? What the hand dare seize the fire ? And what shoulder , and what art , Could twist the sinews of ...
... hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry ? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes ? On what wings dare he aspire ? What the hand dare seize the fire ? And what shoulder , and what art , Could twist the sinews of ...
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