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... trees , " for example , the poet communicates his admiration for a cherry tree's beauty by singling out for attention its white blossoms ; had he wanted to show his dislike for the tree , he might have concentrated on its broken ...
... trees , " for example , the poet communicates his admiration for a cherry tree's beauty by singling out for attention its white blossoms ; had he wanted to show his dislike for the tree , he might have concentrated on its broken ...
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... tree : Some poets who write in English have envied poets who write in Chinese , a language in which certain words look like the things they represent . Consider this Chinese poem : Wang Wei ( 701 - 761 ) BIRD - SINGING STREAM PE 桂 ...
... tree : Some poets who write in English have envied poets who write in Chinese , a language in which certain words look like the things they represent . Consider this Chinese poem : Wang Wei ( 701 - 761 ) BIRD - SINGING STREAM PE 桂 ...
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... tree ! The well - known faces are all gone , And the fret is on me . William Butler Yeats ( 1865-1939 ) THE LAMENTATION OF THE OLD PENSIONER 1939 Although I shelter from the rain Under a broken tree My chair was nearest to the fire In ...
... tree ! The well - known faces are all gone , And the fret is on me . William Butler Yeats ( 1865-1939 ) THE LAMENTATION OF THE OLD PENSIONER 1939 Although I shelter from the rain Under a broken tree My chair was nearest to the fire In ...
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