An Introduction to Poetry |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 70
Page 55
... seems to require a musical setting , so perfect is the verbal melody which Tennyson gave it . The poem was written in the poet's eighty - first year , and by his direction it is placed last in every edition of his poems . The " Pilot ...
... seems to require a musical setting , so perfect is the verbal melody which Tennyson gave it . The poem was written in the poet's eighty - first year , and by his direction it is placed last in every edition of his poems . The " Pilot ...
Page 149
... seems appropriate here , just as white seems more appropriate than black on the coffin of a child . The meter also suits the lightness of touch which accompanies the author's avoidance of the words die and death . Note that the stanzas ...
... seems appropriate here , just as white seems more appropriate than black on the coffin of a child . The meter also suits the lightness of touch which accompanies the author's avoidance of the words die and death . Note that the stanzas ...
Page 458
... seems to be that it is determined largely by science and machinery . We are city - bred , not rural . External as ... seem somewhat remote and unreal in an industrial age . In one sense , as Emerson said , " The books of an older period ...
... seems to be that it is determined largely by science and machinery . We are city - bred , not rural . External as ... seem somewhat remote and unreal in an industrial age . In one sense , as Emerson said , " The books of an older period ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
accented syllables Alfred Edward Housman alliteration anapestic ballad beauty birds blank verse Burns Cæsar's called Camelot century chapter couplet dactylic Danny Deever dark dead death dreams earth Edwin Arlington Robinson elegy English poetry eyes feet flowers following poem free verse glory gone gray hath hear heart heaven hills Hymn iambic pentameter John Keats Lady of Shalott land light lines living look Lord lyric melody meter metrical Milton moon never night o'er poet poetic prose quatrain quote reader rhythm rime Ring Robert Robert Frost romance rose Shakespeare silent sing sleep song sonnet soul sound stanza stars sung sweet Tennyson thee theme thine things thou thought trees trochaic wandering wave weary White Man's burden Whitman wild William William Butler Yeats wind words Wordsworth written wrote