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... symbol : a visible object or action that suggests some further meaning in addition to itself . In literature , a symbol might be the word flag or the words a black cat crossed his path or every ... symbol , however , SYMBOL 205 Symbol.
... symbol : a visible object or action that suggests some further meaning in addition to itself . In literature , a symbol might be the word flag or the words a black cat crossed his path or every ... symbol , however , SYMBOL 205 Symbol.
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... symbolism , Eliot affords us the pleasure of finding our own entrances to his poem . Another great strength of a symbol is that , like some figures of speech , it renders the abstract in concrete terms , and , like any other image ...
... symbolism , Eliot affords us the pleasure of finding our own entrances to his poem . Another great strength of a symbol is that , like some figures of speech , it renders the abstract in concrete terms , and , like any other image ...
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... symbols . There are some things a literary symbol usually is not . A symbol is not an abstraction . Such terms as truth , death , love , and justice cannot work as symbols ( unless personified , as in the traditional figure of Justice ...
... symbols . There are some things a literary symbol usually is not . A symbol is not an abstraction . Such terms as truth , death , love , and justice cannot work as symbols ( unless personified , as in the traditional figure of Justice ...
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