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... tone of voice . " Sometimes in reading a poem , although we can neither see a face nor hear a voice , we can infer the poet's attitude from other evidence . Like tone of voice , tone in literature often conveys an attitude toward the ...
... tone of voice . " Sometimes in reading a poem , although we can neither see a face nor hear a voice , we can infer the poet's attitude from other evidence . Like tone of voice , tone in literature often conveys an attitude toward the ...
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... tone of this poem ? Most readers find the speaker's attitude toward his father affectionate and take this recollection of childhood to be a happy one . But at least one reader , concentrating on certain details , once wrote : " Roethke ...
... tone of this poem ? Most readers find the speaker's attitude toward his father affectionate and take this recollection of childhood to be a happy one . But at least one reader , concentrating on certain details , once wrote : " Roethke ...
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... tone do you find between Whitman's and Dickinson's poems ? Point out in each poem whatever contributes to these differences . 2. Boanerges in Dickinson's last stanza means " sons of thunder , " a name given by Jesus to the disciples ...
... tone do you find between Whitman's and Dickinson's poems ? Point out in each poem whatever contributes to these differences . 2. Boanerges in Dickinson's last stanza means " sons of thunder , " a name given by Jesus to the disciples ...
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