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... poem besides plain prose sense : sounds , images , rhythms , figures of speech . These may strike us and please us even before we ask , " But what does it all mean ? " This is a truth not readily grasped by anyone who regards a poem as ...
... poem besides plain prose sense : sounds , images , rhythms , figures of speech . These may strike us and please us even before we ask , " But what does it all mean ? " This is a truth not readily grasped by anyone who regards a poem as ...
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... poem for that person to read - a poem that you like -- and , addressing your skeptical reader , point out whatever you find to enjoy in it , that you think the skeptic just might enjoy too . 6. Keeping in mind what Coleridge and Jarrell ...
... poem for that person to read - a poem that you like -- and , addressing your skeptical reader , point out whatever you find to enjoy in it , that you think the skeptic just might enjoy too . 6. Keeping in mind what Coleridge and Jarrell ...
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... poems . Here are a few suggestions that might result in poems , if they arouse any responses in you . 1. Try to recall , and recapture in a poem , some experience that deeply moved you . The experience does not have to be anything world ...
... poems . Here are a few suggestions that might result in poems , if they arouse any responses in you . 1. Try to recall , and recapture in a poem , some experience that deeply moved you . The experience does not have to be anything world ...
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