The Poets' World: An Anthology of English PoetryJames Reeves |
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... poet's worlds . Poetry , then , can take us outside the familiar round of every- day experience . If you wish to know something of these worlds of pure imagination , read The Wife of Usher's Well ( p . 2 ) , The Daemon Lover ( p . 11 ) ...
... poet's worlds . Poetry , then , can take us outside the familiar round of every- day experience . If you wish to know something of these worlds of pure imagination , read The Wife of Usher's Well ( p . 2 ) , The Daemon Lover ( p . 11 ) ...
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... poet's handling of the story . If you read of a tragedy like that in the papers , in commonplace newspaper language ... poet used the story ? How has he turned it into a poem ? The first thing to notice is that the poet does not tell the ...
... poet's handling of the story . If you read of a tragedy like that in the papers , in commonplace newspaper language ... poet used the story ? How has he turned it into a poem ? The first thing to notice is that the poet does not tell the ...
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... poet with an abnormally sensitive ear . Another obvious form of repetition is what is called rhyme . ' Decree ' rhymes with ' sea ' , and ' Khan ' rhymes with ' ran ' and ' man ' . The rhymes of a good poet seem to arise naturally out ...
... poet with an abnormally sensitive ear . Another obvious form of repetition is what is called rhyme . ' Decree ' rhymes with ' sea ' , and ' Khan ' rhymes with ' ran ' and ' man ' . The rhymes of a good poet seem to arise naturally out ...
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