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... head : And he smote upon the door again a second time ; " Is there anybody there ? " he said . But no one descended to the Traveller ; No head from the leaf - fringed sill Leaned over and looked into his gray eyes , Where he stood ...
... head : And he smote upon the door again a second time ; " Is there anybody there ? " he said . But no one descended to the Traveller ; No head from the leaf - fringed sill Leaned over and looked into his gray eyes , Where he stood ...
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... head she saw a cloud That seemed to twinkle . " Hiram , well , " she said , " Smith is come home ! I saw his face just now While looking through your head . He's come to die Or else to laugh , for hay is dried - up grass When you're ...
... head she saw a cloud That seemed to twinkle . " Hiram , well , " she said , " Smith is come home ! I saw his face just now While looking through your head . He's come to die Or else to laugh , for hay is dried - up grass When you're ...
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... head style , Their rubber elbows hanging loose and low . One's nostrils are two S's , and his eyes An E and O. And one is squat , without A head at all - more of a football type . Once Flick played for the high - school team , the ...
... head style , Their rubber elbows hanging loose and low . One's nostrils are two S's , and his eyes An E and O. And one is squat , without A head at all - more of a football type . Once Flick played for the high - school team , the ...
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