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... short poem expressing the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker . Probably , it won't report conversations between two or more speakers , as does a poem given later in this chapter , " Sir Patrick Spence . " Often a poet will write ...
... short poem expressing the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker . Probably , it won't report conversations between two or more speakers , as does a poem given later in this chapter , " Sir Patrick Spence . " Often a poet will write ...
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... short essay , set forth the pleasures of browsing in a dictionary . As you browse , see if you can discover any " found poems " . 3. " Printing poetry in dialect , such as ' Scottsboro , ' insults the literacy of a people . ” Think ...
... short essay , set forth the pleasures of browsing in a dictionary . As you browse , see if you can discover any " found poems " . 3. " Printing poetry in dialect , such as ' Scottsboro , ' insults the literacy of a people . ” Think ...
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... short , written poem as they have developed in English over the past few centuries can be usefully seen as compressed , truncated , or fragmented imitations of other verbal forms , especially the play , story , public oration , and ...
... short , written poem as they have developed in English over the past few centuries can be usefully seen as compressed , truncated , or fragmented imitations of other verbal forms , especially the play , story , public oration , and ...
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