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... tell us about this anonymous landlord ? What is the speaker's attitude toward him or her ? 2. Paraphrase , in your own words , the last two lines . John Ciardi ( 1916 - 1986 ) IN PLACE OF A CURSE At the next vacancy for God , if I am ...
... tell us about this anonymous landlord ? What is the speaker's attitude toward him or her ? 2. Paraphrase , in your own words , the last two lines . John Ciardi ( 1916 - 1986 ) IN PLACE OF A CURSE At the next vacancy for God , if I am ...
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... tell him not to be afraid if you learn never to lie . Do not forget to turn his head and let what comes come seen : he will jump the fences he has to if you swing toward them from the side that he can see and hold his good eye straight ...
... tell him not to be afraid if you learn never to lie . Do not forget to turn his head and let what comes come seen : he will jump the fences he has to if you swing toward them from the side that he can see and hold his good eye straight ...
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... tell how it feels to try to support a large family on small wages : It's a naked child against a hungry wolf ; It's playing bowls upon a splitting wreck ; It's walking on a string across a gulf With millstones fore - and - aft about ...
... tell how it feels to try to support a large family on small wages : It's a naked child against a hungry wolf ; It's playing bowls upon a splitting wreck ; It's walking on a string across a gulf With millstones fore - and - aft about ...
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