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... probably attended grammar school and learned to read Latin authors in the original . At eighteen he married Anne Hathaway , twenty- six , by whom he had three children , including twins . By 1592 he had become well known and envied as ...
... probably attended grammar school and learned to read Latin authors in the original . At eighteen he married Anne Hathaway , twenty- six , by whom he had three children , including twins . By 1592 he had become well known and envied as ...
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... probably disappear as soon as you gain in confidence . Although the novice poet is sometimes urged , " Discover your own voice ! " such advice can lead to a painful self - consciousness . Your own voice is probably the last thing to ...
... probably disappear as soon as you gain in confidence . Although the novice poet is sometimes urged , " Discover your own voice ! " such advice can lead to a painful self - consciousness . Your own voice is probably the last thing to ...
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... probably feel that second thoughts , too , can be spontaneous , and often more memorable . If you regard your first draft as holy writ , and refuse to make any changes in it , you may be preserving a work of genius , but more probably ...
... probably feel that second thoughts , too , can be spontaneous , and often more memorable . If you regard your first draft as holy writ , and refuse to make any changes in it , you may be preserving a work of genius , but more probably ...
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