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... perhaps the story goes deeper than mere diversion : perhaps it is a way of saying that works of art achieve a reality of their own , that love can transform or animate its object . How does a myth begin ? Several theories have been ...
... perhaps the story goes deeper than mere diversion : perhaps it is a way of saying that works of art achieve a reality of their own , that love can transform or animate its object . How does a myth begin ? Several theories have been ...
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... perhaps it has aroused our antipathies or unwittingly appealed to our sense of the comic , though the poet is serious . Some poems can be said to succeed despite burden- some faults . But in general such faults are symptoms of deeper ...
... perhaps it has aroused our antipathies or unwittingly appealed to our sense of the comic , though the poet is serious . Some poems can be said to succeed despite burden- some faults . But in general such faults are symptoms of deeper ...
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... perhaps a similar theme or subject . ( For an illustration of such a paper , see the one given in this chapter . For suggestions of poems to compare , see the Anthology . ) 5. Evaluate by the method of comparison two versions of a poem ...
... perhaps a similar theme or subject . ( For an illustration of such a paper , see the one given in this chapter . For suggestions of poems to compare , see the Anthology . ) 5. Evaluate by the method of comparison two versions of a poem ...
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