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... hear no sound . In poetry , several kinds of recurrent sound are possible , including ( as we saw in the last chapter ) rime , alliteration , and assonance . But most often when we speak of the rhythm of a poem we mean the recurrence of ...
... hear no sound . In poetry , several kinds of recurrent sound are possible , including ( as we saw in the last chapter ) rime , alliteration , and assonance . But most often when we speak of the rhythm of a poem we mean the recurrence of ...
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... hear , Weaves around the marriage hearse And blasts the new born infant's tear . ( first draft , 1793 ) b . But most through midnight streets I hear How the youthful harlot's curse Blasts the new born infant's tear And blights with ...
... hear , Weaves around the marriage hearse And blasts the new born infant's tear . ( first draft , 1793 ) b . But most through midnight streets I hear How the youthful harlot's curse Blasts the new born infant's tear And blights with ...
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... hear , my darling , hear the soft Night who is walking . 1. Peace , be AT PEACE , O THOU MY HEAVINESS Peace , be at peace , O thou my heaviness , Thou callèdst for the evening , lo ! ' tis here , The City wears a somber atmosphere That ...
... hear , my darling , hear the soft Night who is walking . 1. Peace , be AT PEACE , O THOU MY HEAVINESS Peace , be at peace , O thou my heaviness , Thou callèdst for the evening , lo ! ' tis here , The City wears a somber atmosphere That ...
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