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... words ! " ' 1 —— Like the celebrated painter , some people assume that all it takes to make a poem is a bright idea . Poems state ideas , to be sure , and sometimes the ideas are ... WORDS Words LITERAL MEANING: WHAT A POEM SAYS FIRST.
... words ! " ' 1 —— Like the celebrated painter , some people assume that all it takes to make a poem is a bright idea . Poems state ideas , to be sure , and sometimes the ideas are ... WORDS Words LITERAL MEANING: WHAT A POEM SAYS FIRST.
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... words available , the least we can do is to find out what the words mean . The dictionary is a firm ally in reading poems ; if the poems are more than a century old , it is indispensable . Meanings change . When the Elizabethan poet ...
... words available , the least we can do is to find out what the words mean . The dictionary is a firm ally in reading poems ; if the poems are more than a century old , it is indispensable . Meanings change . When the Elizabethan poet ...
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... WORD CHOICE AND WORD ORDER My P Even if Samuel Johnson's famous Dictionary of 1755 had been as thick as Webster's unabridged , an eighteenth - century poet searching through it for words to use would have had a narrower choice . For in ...
... WORD CHOICE AND WORD ORDER My P Even if Samuel Johnson's famous Dictionary of 1755 had been as thick as Webster's unabridged , an eighteenth - century poet searching through it for words to use would have had a narrower choice . For 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