An Introduction to Poetry |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 60
Page 13
... 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 person ...
... 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 person ...
Page 131
... VOICE So smooth , so sweet , so silv'ry is thy voice , 1648 As , could they hear , the damned would make no noise , But listen to thee ( walking in thy chamber ) Melting melodious words , to lutes of amber . UPON JULIA'S VOICE . 4 amber ...
... VOICE So smooth , so sweet , so silv'ry is thy voice , 1648 As , could they hear , the damned would make no noise , But listen to thee ( walking in thy chamber ) Melting melodious words , to lutes of amber . UPON JULIA'S VOICE . 4 amber ...
Page 496
... voice ! " such advice can lead to a painful self - consciousness . Your own voice is probably the last thing to concern yourself about . Certainly it would be a mistake to settle on any one particular voice or style before you have ...
... voice ! " such advice can lead to a painful self - consciousness . Your own voice is probably the last thing to concern yourself about . Certainly it would be a mistake to settle on any one particular voice or style before you have ...
Contents
Reading a Poem | 1 |
NARRATIVE POETRY | 8 |
THE PERSON IN THE POEM | 19 |
Copyright | |
66 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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