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... story . As you read ( or afterward ) , you can jot down anything you notice that you wish to remember . Does a theme in a story , or a line of dialogue , strike you forcefully ? Make a note of it . Does something in the story not make ...
... story . As you read ( or afterward ) , you can jot down anything you notice that you wish to remember . Does a theme in a story , or a line of dialogue , strike you forcefully ? Make a note of it . Does something in the story not make ...
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... story : finding a topic , organizing your thoughts , writing , revising . For general advice on writing papers about any kind of literature , see " Writing about Literature " on page 461. In a few ways , however , a poem requires a ...
... story : finding a topic , organizing your thoughts , writing , revising . For general advice on writing papers about any kind of literature , see " Writing about Literature " on page 461. In a few ways , however , a poem requires a ...
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... story , are so essential to a poem ( and so elusive ) that Robert Frost was moved to say , " Poetry is what gets lost in translation . " Once in a while , of course , you'll read a story whose prose abounds in sounds , rhythms , figures ...
... story , are so essential to a poem ( and so elusive ) that Robert Frost was moved to say , " Poetry is what gets lost in translation . " Once in a while , of course , you'll read a story whose prose abounds in sounds , rhythms , figures ...
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