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... young girl turned harlot ; wedding carriage transformed into a hearse . INTERPRETATION OF THE LINES : Literally , the harlot spreads the plague of syphilis , which , carried into marriage , can cause a baby to be born blind . In a ...
... young girl turned harlot ; wedding carriage transformed into a hearse . INTERPRETATION OF THE LINES : Literally , the harlot spreads the plague of syphilis , which , carried into marriage , can cause a baby to be born blind . In a ...
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... YOUNG When maidens are young , and in their spring , 1687 Of pleasure , of pleasure let ' em take their full swing , Full swing , full swing , And love , and dance , and play , and sing , For Silvia , believe it , when youth is done ...
... YOUNG When maidens are young , and in their spring , 1687 Of pleasure , of pleasure let ' em take their full swing , Full swing , full swing , And love , and dance , and play , and sing , For Silvia , believe it , when youth is done ...
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... young President dead . Above the warehouse and beneath the stars The poets creep on the harp of the Bridge . But see , They fall into the National Cold Storage Company One by one . The wind off the river is too cold , Or the times too ...
... young President dead . Above the warehouse and beneath the stars The poets creep on the harp of the Bridge . But see , They fall into the National Cold Storage Company One by one . The wind off the river is too cold , Or the times too ...
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