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X. J. Kennedy. Preface What is poetry ? Pressed for an answer , Robert Frost made a classic reply : " Poetry is the kind of thing poets write . " In all likelihood , Frost was not trying merely to evade the question but to chide his ...
X. J. Kennedy. Preface What is poetry ? Pressed for an answer , Robert Frost made a classic reply : " Poetry is the kind of thing poets write . " In all likelihood , Frost was not trying merely to evade the question but to chide his ...
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... poetry - mill and grind it into poems . Although poems may rise from your experience , sometimes in becoming a poem the experience will " suffer a sea change / Into something rich and strange " ( like the drowned man's bones in the song ...
... poetry - mill and grind it into poems . Although poems may rise from your experience , sometimes in becoming a poem the experience will " suffer a sea change / Into something rich and strange " ( like the drowned man's bones in the song ...
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... poets what they think of poetry , and they will probably tell you that most poetry now being printed , other than their own , is bad or mediocre . But ask any six poets ( selected at random ) which other poets among their contemporaries ...
... poets what they think of poetry , and they will probably tell you that most poetry now being printed , other than their own , is bad or mediocre . But ask any six poets ( selected at random ) which other poets among their contemporaries ...
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