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... Reason , Reason is my middle name . 10 Language on more than one level enlivens this miniature comedy ; the vulgate of the resentful driver ( " Pull her up my rear end , " " leave me handle my own . car " ) and the colloquial of the ...
... Reason , Reason is my middle name . 10 Language on more than one level enlivens this miniature comedy ; the vulgate of the resentful driver ( " Pull her up my rear end , " " leave me handle my own . car " ) and the colloquial of the ...
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... reason , because you were afraid of being thought a buffoon , is now let out again ; and having stimulated the risible faculty at the theater , you are betrayed unconsciously to yourself into playing the comic poet at home . Glaucon ...
... reason , because you were afraid of being thought a buffoon , is now let out again ; and having stimulated the risible faculty at the theater , you are betrayed unconsciously to yourself into playing the comic poet at home . Glaucon ...
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... reason you don't want to help for the tubs . " Similarly , when someone says , " I don't read modern poetry because it's all stuff that nobody on earth can understand , " I know enough to be able to answer , though not aloud : " It isn ...
... reason you don't want to help for the tubs . " Similarly , when someone says , " I don't read modern poetry because it's all stuff that nobody on earth can understand , " I know enough to be able to answer , though not aloud : " It isn ...
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