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... seen with the mind's eye . And although " In a Station of the Metro " records what Ezra Pound saw , it is of course not necessary for a poet actually to have lived through a sensory experi- ence in order to write of it . Keats may never ...
... seen with the mind's eye . And although " In a Station of the Metro " records what Ezra Pound saw , it is of course not necessary for a poet actually to have lived through a sensory experi- ence in order to write of it . Keats may never ...
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... seen as poetry- especially prose that conveys strong emotion in vivid , physical imagery and in terse , figurative , rhythmical language . Even in translation the words of Chief Joseph of the Nez Percé tribe , at the moment of his ...
... seen as poetry- especially prose that conveys strong emotion in vivid , physical imagery and in terse , figurative , rhythmical language . Even in translation the words of Chief Joseph of the Nez Percé tribe , at the moment of his ...
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... seen my head ( grown slightly bald ) brought in upon a platter , I am no prophet — and here's no great matter ; have seen the moment of my greatness flicker , And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat , and snicker , And in short ...
... seen my head ( grown slightly bald ) brought in upon a platter , I am no prophet — and here's no great matter ; have seen the moment of my greatness flicker , And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat , and snicker , And in short ...
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