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... Mind not the timid mind not the weeper or prayer , Mind not the old man beseeching the young man , Let not the child's voice be heard , nor the mother's entreaties , 15 Make even the trestles to shake the dead where they lie awaiting ...
... Mind not the timid mind not the weeper or prayer , Mind not the old man beseeching the young man , Let not the child's voice be heard , nor the mother's entreaties , 15 Make even the trestles to shake the dead where they lie awaiting ...
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... mind , so the lyric poets are not in their right mind when they are composing their beautiful strains : but when falling under the power of music and meter they are inspired and possessed ; like Bacchic maidens who draw milk and honey ...
... mind , so the lyric poets are not in their right mind when they are composing their beautiful strains : but when falling under the power of music and meter they are inspired and possessed ; like Bacchic maidens who draw milk and honey ...
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... mind — let the poem choose its own direction . See where it wants to go . Be reluctant to bark orders to it . - A quite different method of composition , which some poets find fruitful , is to compose a poem entirely in the mind ...
... mind — let the poem choose its own direction . See where it wants to go . Be reluctant to bark orders to it . - A quite different method of composition , which some poets find fruitful , is to compose a poem entirely in the mind ...
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