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... kind of metonymy , synecdoche is the use of a part of a thing to stand for the whole of it or vice versa . We say " She lent a hand , " and mean that she lent her entire presence . Similarly , Milton in " Lycidas " refers to greedy ...
... kind of metonymy , synecdoche is the use of a part of a thing to stand for the whole of it or vice versa . We say " She lent a hand , " and mean that she lent her entire presence . Similarly , Milton in " Lycidas " refers to greedy ...
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... kind of form , whether its lines are as various in length as broomstraws , or all in hexameter . To put this point in another way : if you were to listen to a poem read aloud in a language unknown to you , or if you saw the poem printed ...
... kind of form , whether its lines are as various in length as broomstraws , or all in hexameter . To put this point in another way : if you were to listen to a poem read aloud in a language unknown to you , or if you saw the poem printed ...
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... kind of poem . " I dislike , " said John Livingston Lowes , " poems that black your eyes , or put up their mouths to be kissed . " As jewelers tell which of two diamonds is fine by seeing which scratches the other , two poems may be ...
... kind of poem . " I dislike , " said John Livingston Lowes , " poems that black your eyes , or put up their mouths to be kissed . " As jewelers tell which of two diamonds is fine by seeing which scratches the other , two poems may be ...
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