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... night becomes an indictment of a whole social and religious order . The indictment could hardly be this effective if it were " mathematically plain , " its every word restricted to one denotation clearly spelled out . Wallace Stevens ...
... night becomes an indictment of a whole social and religious order . The indictment could hardly be this effective if it were " mathematically plain , " its every word restricted to one denotation clearly spelled out . Wallace Stevens ...
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... NIGHT 1952 Do not go gentle into that good night , Old age should burn and rave at close of day ; Rage , rage against the dying of the light . Though wise men at their end know dark is right , Because their words had forked no lightning ...
... NIGHT 1952 Do not go gentle into that good night , Old age should burn and rave at close of day ; Rage , rage against the dying of the light . Though wise men at their end know dark is right , Because their words had forked no lightning ...
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... Night who is walking . 1. Peace , be AT PEACE , O THOU MY HEAVINESS Peace , be at peace , O thou my heaviness , Thou callèdst for the evening , lo ! ' tis here , The City wears a somber atmosphere That brings repose to some , to some ...
... Night who is walking . 1. Peace , be AT PEACE , O THOU MY HEAVINESS Peace , be at peace , O thou my heaviness , Thou callèdst for the evening , lo ! ' tis here , The City wears a somber atmosphere That brings repose to some , to some ...
Contents
Reading a Poem | 1 |
NARRATIVE POETRY | 8 |
THE PERSON IN THE POEM | 19 |
Copyright | |
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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