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... poet is in control of language and vision ; 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 ...
... poet is in control of language and vision ; 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 ...
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... poet's work - what you now know of it . Here are some questions you might ask yourself ( taking the poets one at a ... poet to report honest feelings ? How well does the poet seem in control of language ? Does the poet's language reflect ...
... poet's work - what you now know of it . Here are some questions you might ask yourself ( taking the poets one at a ... poet to report honest feelings ? How well does the poet seem in control of language ? Does the poet's language reflect ...
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... poet who persists in licking stamps will break into print sooner or later . Yet the difficulty for poets today is ... poet today to gain an audience and a reputation . And yet , in the last few years , despite all odds , several ...
... poet who persists in licking stamps will break into print sooner or later . Yet the difficulty for poets today is ... poet today to gain an audience and a reputation . And yet , in the last few years , despite all odds , several ...
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