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... seems important to the poem , and the paraphrase tries to make its meaning obvious . Whenever you paraphrase , you stick your neck out . You affirm what the poem gives you to understand . And making a paraphrase can help you see the ...
... seems important to the poem , and the paraphrase tries to make its meaning obvious . Whenever you paraphrase , you stick your neck out . You affirm what the poem gives you to understand . And making a paraphrase can help you see the ...
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... seems not only a pun on the name of a month , but also a portmanteau word into which at least two familiar words are packed . Say it aloud . What are they ? 4. What dictionary definitions of the word quirk seem relevant to line 2 ? How ...
... seems not only a pun on the name of a month , but also a portmanteau word into which at least two familiar words are packed . Say it aloud . What are they ? 4. What dictionary definitions of the word quirk seem relevant to line 2 ? How ...
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... seem fresh , not all will startle , and probably few will call to mind things so unlike as May and decay , Cayuga ... seems fresher than its rimes ( if taken out of context ) would lead us to expect . William Blake ( 1757-1827 ) * THE ...
... seem fresh , not all will startle , and probably few will call to mind things so unlike as May and decay , Cayuga ... seems fresher than its rimes ( if taken out of context ) would lead us to expect . William Blake ( 1757-1827 ) * THE ...
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