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... usually just imply a season : a blossom indicates spring ; a crow on a branch , autumn ; snow , winter . Not just pretty little sketches of nature ( as some Westerners think ) , haiku assume a view of the universe in which observer and ...
... usually just imply a season : a blossom indicates spring ; a crow on a branch , autumn ; snow , winter . Not just pretty little sketches of nature ( as some Westerners think ) , haiku assume a view of the universe in which observer and ...
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... usually is not . A symbol is not an abstraction . Such terms as truth , death , love , and justice cannot work as symbols ( unless personified , as in the traditional figure of Justice holding a scale ) . Most often , a symbol is ...
... usually is not . A symbol is not an abstraction . Such terms as truth , death , love , and justice cannot work as symbols ( unless personified , as in the traditional figure of Justice holding a scale ) . Most often , a symbol is ...
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... usually allegor- Matthew 13 : 24–30 ( Authorized or King James Version , 1611 ) THE PARABLE OF THE GOOD SEED The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field : But while men slept , his enemy came and sowed ...
... usually allegor- Matthew 13 : 24–30 ( Authorized or King James Version , 1611 ) THE PARABLE OF THE GOOD SEED The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field : But while men slept , his enemy came and sowed ...
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