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... turning " ) , the reader's eye , before turning to go on to the next line , makes a pause , however brief . If a line ends ... turn into hay : I'm martyr to a motion not my own ; What's freedom for ? To know eternity . I swear she cast a ...
... turning " ) , the reader's eye , before turning to go on to the next line , makes a pause , however brief . If a line ends ... turn into hay : I'm martyr to a motion not my own ; What's freedom for ? To know eternity . I swear she cast a ...
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... turning Wearily , as one would turn to nod good - bye to La Rochefoucauld , If the street were time and he at the end of the street , And I say , " Cousin Harriet , here is the Boston Evening Transcript . " 5 The newspaper , whose name ...
... turning Wearily , as one would turn to nod good - bye to La Rochefoucauld , If the street were time and he at the end of the street , And I say , " Cousin Harriet , here is the Boston Evening Transcript . " 5 The newspaper , whose name ...
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... turning in the widening gyre ° The falcon cannot hear the falconer ; Things fall apart ; the center cannot hold ... turn ; one civilization ends and another begins . Strangely , a new age is always announced by birds and by acts of ...
... turning in the widening gyre ° The falcon cannot hear the falconer ; Things fall apart ; the center cannot hold ... turn ; one civilization ends and another begins . Strangely , a new age is always announced by birds and by acts of ...
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