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... reader didn't notice the rollicking rhythms of the poem ; the playfulness of a rime like dizzy and easy ; the joy- ful suggestions of the words waltz , waltzing , and romped . Probably the reader didn't stop to visualize this scene in ...
... reader didn't notice the rollicking rhythms of the poem ; the playfulness of a rime like dizzy and easy ; the joy- ful suggestions of the words waltz , waltzing , and romped . Probably the reader didn't stop to visualize this scene in ...
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... reader , not because all readers are male but because I am , and my hypotheti- cal reader is not a pure construct but an idealized version of myself . ) How do we make a poem out of this text ? There are only two things to work on , the ...
... reader , not because all readers are male but because I am , and my hypotheti- cal reader is not a pure construct but an idealized version of myself . ) How do we make a poem out of this text ? There are only two things to work on , the ...
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... reader as reached - for and strange if you enlist them from far beyond your vocabulary . Some poets make a typewritten first draft , then revise in longhand . When additions , deletions , and substitutions accumulate and the page ...
... reader as reached - for and strange if you enlist them from far beyond your vocabulary . Some poets make a typewritten first draft , then revise in longhand . When additions , deletions , and substitutions accumulate and the page ...
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