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X. J. Kennedy. 6 Figures of Speech WHY SPEAK FIGURATIVELY ? " I will speak daggers to her , but use none , " says Hamlet , preparing to confront his mother . His statement makes sense only because we realize that daggers is to be taken ...
X. J. Kennedy. 6 Figures of Speech WHY SPEAK FIGURATIVELY ? " I will speak daggers to her , but use none , " says Hamlet , preparing to confront his mother . His statement makes sense only because we realize that daggers is to be taken ...
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... speak better and have more to say about Homer than any other man . But I do not speak equally well about others tell me the reason for this . ' Translated by Benjamin Jowett . Socrates : I perceive , Ion ; and I will CRITICISM : ON ...
... speak better and have more to say about Homer than any other man . But I do not speak equally well about others tell me the reason for this . ' Translated by Benjamin Jowett . Socrates : I perceive , Ion ; and I will CRITICISM : ON ...
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... speak concerning the actions of men ; but like yourself when speaking about Homer , they do not speak of them by any rules of art : they are simply inspired to utter that to which the Muse impels them , and that only ; and when inspired ...
... speak concerning the actions of men ; but like yourself when speaking about Homer , they do not speak of them by any rules of art : they are simply inspired to utter that to which the Muse impels them , and that only ; and when inspired ...
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