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... sense : sounds , images , rhythms , figures of speech . These may strike us and please us even before we ask , " But what does it all mean ? " This is a truth not readily grasped by anyone who regards a poem as a kind of puzzle written ...
... sense : sounds , images , rhythms , figures of speech . These may strike us and please us even before we ask , " But what does it all mean ? " This is a truth not readily grasped by anyone who regards a poem as a kind of puzzle written ...
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... sense of death is conveyed ; the abstraction " death " is understood through the senses . To render the abstract in concrete terms is what poets often try to do ; in this attempt , an image can be valuable . An image may occur in a ...
... sense of death is conveyed ; the abstraction " death " is understood through the senses . To render the abstract in concrete terms is what poets often try to do ; in this attempt , an image can be valuable . An image may occur in a ...
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... sense of exercising this free creative activity in other ways than in producing great works of literature or art ; if it were not so , all but a very few men would be shut out from the true happiness of all men ; they may have it in ...
... sense of exercising this free creative activity in other ways than in producing great works of literature or art ; if it were not so , all but a very few men would be shut out from the true happiness of all men ; they may have it in ...
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