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... WIND The wind blew all my wedding - day , 1951 And my wedding - night was the night of the high wind ; And a stable door was banging , again and again , That he must go and shut it , leaving me Stupid in candlelight , hearing rain ...
... WIND The wind blew all my wedding - day , 1951 And my wedding - night was the night of the high wind ; And a stable door was banging , again and again , That he must go and shut it , leaving me Stupid in candlelight , hearing rain ...
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... WIND 1915 The wind stood up and gave a shout . He whistled on his fingers and Kicked the withered leaves about And thumped the branches with his hand . And said he'd kill and kill and kill , And OTHER FIGURES 97 OTHER FIGURES James ...
... WIND 1915 The wind stood up and gave a shout . He whistled on his fingers and Kicked the withered leaves about And thumped the branches with his hand . And said he'd kill and kill and kill , And OTHER FIGURES 97 OTHER FIGURES James ...
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... WIND ( about 1500 ) Western wind , when wilt thou blow , The small rain down can rain ? Christ , if my love were in my arms , And I in my bed again ! COMPARE : " Western Wind " with " Wedding - Wind " by Philip Larkin ( page 20 ) ...
... WIND ( about 1500 ) Western wind , when wilt thou blow , The small rain down can rain ? Christ , if my love were in my arms , And I in my bed again ! COMPARE : " Western Wind " with " Wedding - Wind " by Philip Larkin ( page 20 ) ...
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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