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... poet to report honest feelings ? How well does the poet seem in control of language ? Does the poet's language reflect in any detail the physical world we know ? Do these poems seem entirely drawn from other poetry of the past , or do ...
... poet to report honest feelings ? How well does the poet seem in control of language ? Does the poet's language reflect in any detail the physical world we know ? Do these poems seem entirely drawn from other poetry of the past , or do ...
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... poets can learn from reading other poets ' work , they can also learn from the testimony of their own senses . In the ... poet's mind even before there are words to embody it . Some poets begin from a memorable image ; Ezra Pound said he ...
... poets can learn from reading other poets ' work , they can also learn from the testimony of their own senses . In the ... poet's mind even before there are words to embody it . Some poets begin from a memorable image ; Ezra Pound said he ...
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... poet who persists in licking stamps will break into print sooner or later . Yet the difficulty for poets today is not merely to be printed , but to be read . Ours seems a time of more good voices than good listeners . It is , besides ...
... poet who persists in licking stamps will break into print sooner or later . Yet the difficulty for poets today is not merely to be printed , but to be read . Ours seems a time of more good voices than good listeners . It is , besides ...
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