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... written this ? " Wordsworth , Shelley , Whitman , and Browning are among the great whose failures can be painful , and sometimes an excellent poem will have a bad spot in it . To be unwilling to read them , though , would be as ill ...
... written this ? " Wordsworth , Shelley , Whitman , and Browning are among the great whose failures can be painful , and sometimes an excellent poem will have a bad spot in it . To be unwilling to read them , though , would be as ill ...
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... Writing about Literature " on page 461. In a few ways , however , a poem requires a different approach . In this chapter we will deal briefly with some of them , and will offer a few illustrations of papers that students have written ...
... Writing about Literature " on page 461. In a few ways , however , a poem requires a different approach . In this chapter we will deal briefly with some of them , and will offer a few illustrations of papers that students have written ...
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... writing do not promise to create poets . All they can try to create is an atmosphere in which good poems may be written , given a hearing , and perhaps rendered stronger and more concise . As a member of a class or writing workshop ...
... writing do not promise to create poets . All they can try to create is an atmosphere in which good poems may be written , given a hearing , and perhaps rendered stronger and more concise . As a member of a class or writing workshop ...
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