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... person's point of view . To leap outside the walls of your self , to see through another person's eyes - this is an experience that literature abundantly offers . Although , if you are lucky , you may never meet ( or have to do business ...
... person's point of view . To leap outside the walls of your self , to see through another person's eyes - this is an experience that literature abundantly offers . Although , if you are lucky , you may never meet ( or have to do business ...
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... PERSON IN THE POEM The tone of a poem , we said , is like tone of voice in that both communicate feelings . Still ... person we meet in life and a person we meet in a work of art — unlike the moviegoer in the Philippines who , watching a ...
... PERSON IN THE POEM The tone of a poem , we said , is like tone of voice in that both communicate feelings . Still ... person we meet in life and a person we meet in a work of art — unlike the moviegoer in the Philippines who , watching a ...
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... person is the one imagined in the poem . If this person were dead , the poet suggests , so would his inspiration be dead . With no one to write for , no poem would be forthcoming . This poem is not only a " refusal to mourn , " like ...
... person is the one imagined in the poem . If this person were dead , the poet suggests , so would his inspiration be dead . With no one to write for , no poem would be forthcoming . This poem is not only a " refusal to mourn , " like ...
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