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... sound as well as musical sound . Certainly the words of a song have an effect different from that of wordless music : they go along with their music and , by making statements , add more meaning . The French poet Isidore Isou , founder ...
... sound as well as musical sound . Certainly the words of a song have an effect different from that of wordless music : they go along with their music and , by making statements , add more meaning . The French poet Isidore Isou , founder ...
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... sound identical with meaning in lines such as these ? Not quite . In the passage from Tennyson , for instance , the cooing of doves is not exactly a moan . As John Crowe Ransom pointed out , the sound would be almost the same but the ...
... sound identical with meaning in lines such as these ? Not quite . In the passage from Tennyson , for instance , the cooing of doves is not exactly a moan . As John Crowe Ransom pointed out , the sound would be almost the same but the ...
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... sound of words something of the refreshment of cool rain . Dylan Thomas , telling how he began to write poetry , said that from early childhood words were to him " as the notes of bells , the sounds of musical instruments , the noises ...
... sound of words something of the refreshment of cool rain . Dylan Thomas , telling how he began to write poetry , said that from early childhood words were to him " as the notes of bells , the sounds of musical instruments , the noises ...
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