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... nature . " From my own study of living myths among savages , " wrote Bronislaw Malinowski , " I should say that primitive man has to a very limited extent the purely artistic or scientific interest in nature ; there is but little room ...
... nature . " From my own study of living myths among savages , " wrote Bronislaw Malinowski , " I should say that primitive man has to a very limited extent the purely artistic or scientific interest in nature ; there is but little room ...
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... nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing , But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make Of hammered gold and gold enameling To keep a drowsy Emperor awake ; Or set upon a golden bough to sing To lords and ladies of ...
... nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing , But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make Of hammered gold and gold enameling To keep a drowsy Emperor awake ; Or set upon a golden bough to sing To lords and ladies of ...
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... nature , have little apparent correspondence with that spirit of good of which they are the ministers . But even whilst they deny and abjure , they are yet compelled to serve , the power which is seated on the throne of their own soul ...
... nature , have little apparent correspondence with that spirit of good of which they are the ministers . But even whilst they deny and abjure , they are yet compelled to serve , the power which is seated on the throne of their own soul ...
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