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... language valuable : Old English poets , with their standard figures of speech ( " whale - road " for the sea , " ring - giver " for a ruler ) ; makers of folk ballads who , no less than neoclassicists , love fixed epithet - noun ...
... language valuable : Old English poets , with their standard figures of speech ( " whale - road " for the sea , " ring - giver " for a ruler ) ; makers of folk ballads who , no less than neoclassicists , love fixed epithet - noun ...
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... language distinguish the speakers in the poem from one another . The diction of " Reason " is that of speech ; that of Coleridge's " Kubla Khan " ( page 299 ) is more bookish . Coleridge is not at fault , however : the language of ...
... language distinguish the speakers in the poem from one another . The diction of " Reason " is that of speech ; that of Coleridge's " Kubla Khan " ( page 299 ) is more bookish . Coleridge is not at fault , however : the language of ...
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... language or graceful turns of word order , we think them pleasant extras . But in poetry all these " extras " matter as much as the para- phraseable content , if not more . For , when we finish reading a good poem , we cannot explain ...
... language or graceful turns of word order , we think them pleasant extras . But in poetry all these " extras " matter as much as the para- phraseable content , if not more . For , when we finish reading a good poem , we cannot explain ...
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