An Introduction to Poetry |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 62
Page 90
... sometimes declines , By chance , or nature's changing course , untrimmed . But thy eternal summer shall not fade ... Sometimes the sun's too hot ; Sometimes it is not . Who can stay young forever ? People break their necks or just drop ...
... sometimes declines , By chance , or nature's changing course , untrimmed . But thy eternal summer shall not fade ... Sometimes the sun's too hot ; Sometimes it is not . Who can stay young forever ? People break their necks or just drop ...
Page 252
... sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea . " - There ought to be something , something that's fair to 252 EVALUATING A POEM Rod McKuen, THOUGHTS ON CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.
... sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea . " - There ought to be something , something that's fair to 252 EVALUATING A POEM Rod McKuen, THOUGHTS ON CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.
Page 343
... sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep Steady thy laden head across a brook ; III Or by a cider - press , with patient look , Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours . Where are the songs of Spring ? Ay , where are they ? Think ...
... sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep Steady thy laden head across a brook ; III Or by a cider - press , with patient look , Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours . Where are the songs of Spring ? Ay , where are they ? Think ...
Contents
Reading a Poem | 1 |
NARRATIVE POETRY | 8 |
THE PERSON IN THE POEM | 19 |
Copyright | |
66 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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