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... light or comic verse . Does " Desert Places " leave you laughing ? If not , what does it make you feel ? READING AND HEARING POEMS ALOUD — Thomas Moore's " The light that lies in women's eyes " a line rich in internal rime ...
... light or comic verse . Does " Desert Places " leave you laughing ? If not , what does it make you feel ? READING AND HEARING POEMS ALOUD — Thomas Moore's " The light that lies in women's eyes " a line rich in internal rime ...
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... LIGHT IS SPENT ( 1655 ? ) When I consider how my light is spent , Ere half my days in this dark world and wide , And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless , though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker ...
... LIGHT IS SPENT ( 1655 ? ) When I consider how my light is spent , Ere half my days in this dark world and wide , And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless , though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker ...
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... light upon a poem from one direction . If you care enough about a poem , and about some perspective on it — its theme , say , or its symbolism , or its singability — writing an analysis can enlighten and give pleasure . In this book you ...
... light upon a poem from one direction . If you care enough about a poem , and about some perspective on it — its theme , say , or its symbolism , or its singability — writing an analysis can enlighten and give pleasure . In this book you ...
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