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... things . Most poets tend to favor concrete diction , at least part of the time . In an apt criticism , William ... things . Much of T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets is concerned with time , eternity , history , language , reality , and other ...
... things . Most poets tend to favor concrete diction , at least part of the time . In an apt criticism , William ... things . Much of T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets is concerned with time , eternity , history , language , reality , and other ...
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... things have in common , while a metaphor is not plainly limited in the number of resemblances it may indicate . To use the simile “ He eats like a pig " is to compare man and animal in one respect : eating habits . But to say " He's a ...
... things have in common , while a metaphor is not plainly limited in the number of resemblances it may indicate . To use the simile “ He eats like a pig " is to compare man and animal in one respect : eating habits . But to say " He's a ...
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... things you admire , and a glum experi- ence in terms of things you dislike . Possible subjects : Before meeting a loved one and after . Having a dull , badly paid job and then quitting it . Losing weight and putting it back on . Ruth ...
... things you admire , and a glum experi- ence in terms of things you dislike . Possible subjects : Before meeting a loved one and after . Having a dull , badly paid job and then quitting it . Losing weight and putting it back on . Ruth ...
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