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... wrote more than a thousand poems , she published only seven . The extent of her work was known only after her death ... wrote his subtle , worldly love lyrics as a young man in the court of Queen Elizabeth I. At the time , he came to be ...
... wrote more than a thousand poems , she published only seven . The extent of her work was known only after her death ... wrote his subtle , worldly love lyrics as a young man in the court of Queen Elizabeth I. At the time , he came to be ...
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... wrote for himself : " Here lies one whose name was writ in water . ” His name , however , has continued to endure . No English poet wrote poems richer in sensuous imagery ( as in his great odes , among them " Ode on Melancholy " and ...
... wrote for himself : " Here lies one whose name was writ in water . ” His name , however , has continued to endure . No English poet wrote poems richer in sensuous imagery ( as in his great odes , among them " Ode on Melancholy " and ...
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... wrote The Harp Weaver , a serious volume of verse that won her a Pulitzer Prize in 1923 , Millay did hack writing to pay her bills . Among other work for which she is known are verse dramas such as Aria da Capo ( 1920 ) and the sonnet ...
... wrote The Harp Weaver , a serious volume of verse that won her a Pulitzer Prize in 1923 , Millay did hack writing to pay her bills . Among other work for which she is known are verse dramas such as Aria da Capo ( 1920 ) and the sonnet ...
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