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... meaning . The French poet Isidore Isou , founder of a literary movement called lettrisme , main- tained that poems can be written not only in words but in letters ( sample lines : xyl , xyl , / prprali dryl / znglo trpylo pwi ) . But ...
... meaning . The French poet Isidore Isou , founder of a literary movement called lettrisme , main- tained that poems can be written not only in words but in letters ( sample lines : xyl , xyl , / prprali dryl / znglo trpylo pwi ) . But ...
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... meaning . James Weldon Johnson in God's Trombones has told of an old - time preacher who began his sermon , " Brothers and sisters , this morning I intend to explain the unexplainable — find out the indefinable — ponder over the ...
... meaning . James Weldon Johnson in God's Trombones has told of an old - time preacher who began his sermon , " Brothers and sisters , this morning I intend to explain the unexplainable — find out the indefinable — ponder over the ...
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... meaning , but particular meanings of their own . In Melville's novel Moby - Dick , to take a rich example , whatever we associate with the great white whale is not attached unmistakably to white whales by custom . Though Melville tells ...
... meaning , but particular meanings of their own . In Melville's novel Moby - Dick , to take a rich example , whatever we associate with the great white whale is not attached unmistakably to white whales by custom . Though Melville tells ...
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