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... ideas you make it with words ! " ' 1 —— Like the celebrated painter , some people assume that all it takes to make a poem is a bright idea . Poems state ideas , to be sure , and sometimes the ideas are invaluable ; and yet the most ...
... ideas you make it with words ! " ' 1 —— Like the celebrated painter , some people assume that all it takes to make a poem is a bright idea . Poems state ideas , to be sure , and sometimes the ideas are invaluable ; and yet the most ...
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... idea for a paper in a provisional thesis sentence : a summing - up of the one main idea or argument that the paper will embody . ( A thesis sentence is for your own use ; you don't have to implant it in your paper unless your instructor ...
... idea for a paper in a provisional thesis sentence : a summing - up of the one main idea or argument that the paper will embody . ( A thesis sentence is for your own use ; you don't have to implant it in your paper unless your instructor ...
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... idea or an emotion , a rhythm or an image , a phrase or a line . What matters is that , somehow , you begin . Plunge in and blunder about . Why be afraid of a blank sheet of paper ? You're writing only a first draft . No one is judging ...
... idea or an emotion , a rhythm or an image , a phrase or a line . What matters is that , somehow , you begin . Plunge in and blunder about . Why be afraid of a blank sheet of paper ? You're writing only a first draft . No one is judging ...
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