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... story of poetry ; yet , unlike the prose short story , which of all the important literary types is the youngest , the ballad is among the most ancient . Only the folk - song is equally old . The ballad is older than the Iliad and the ...
... story of poetry ; yet , unlike the prose short story , which of all the important literary types is the youngest , the ballad is among the most ancient . Only the folk - song is equally old . The ballad is older than the Iliad and the ...
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... stories . To one who knows the biblical story , the following lines from Keats's " Ode to a Nightingale " are among the finest in a great poem : Perhaps the self - same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth , when , sick ...
... stories . To one who knows the biblical story , the following lines from Keats's " Ode to a Nightingale " are among the finest in a great poem : Perhaps the self - same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth , when , sick ...
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... story , the legend of Troilus and Cressida . See Robert K. Root's The Poetry of Chaucer for a good brief account of the story . The Troilus story reflects the ideals , not of ancient Greece or Rome , but of the Middle Ages and the ...
... story , the legend of Troilus and Cressida . See Robert K. Root's The Poetry of Chaucer for a good brief account of the story . The Troilus story reflects the ideals , not of ancient Greece or Rome , but of the Middle Ages and the ...
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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