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X. J. Kennedy. 9 Rhythm STRESSES AND PAUSES Rhythms affect us powerfully . We are lulled by a hammock's sway , awakened by an alarm clock's repeated yammer . Long after we come home from a beach , the rising and falling of waves and ...
X. J. Kennedy. 9 Rhythm STRESSES AND PAUSES Rhythms affect us powerfully . We are lulled by a hammock's sway , awakened by an alarm clock's repeated yammer . Long after we come home from a beach , the rising and falling of waves and ...
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... rhythm occurs in these lines , as the make - believe horse changes pace . How do these rhythms differ ? From one line to the next , the interval between stresses lengthens or grows shorter . In " a TROT a TROT a TROT a TROT , " the ...
... rhythm occurs in these lines , as the make - believe horse changes pace . How do these rhythms differ ? From one line to the next , the interval between stresses lengthens or grows shorter . In " a TROT a TROT a TROT a TROT , " the ...
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... rhythm of a poem has no meaning . There are no essentially sad rhythms , nor any essentially happy ones . But some rhythms enforce certain meanings better than others do . The bounc- ing rhythm of Service's line seems fitting for an ...
... rhythm of a poem has no meaning . There are no essentially sad rhythms , nor any essentially happy ones . But some rhythms enforce certain meanings better than others do . The bounc- ing rhythm of Service's line seems fitting for an ...
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