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Page 103
... effect does it have upon the tone of the poem ? 3. Why is the effect of this pun different from that of Thomas Hood's play on the same word in " Faithless Nelly Gray " ( quoted on p . 99 ) ? 4. What does compass denote in line 9 ? 5 ...
... effect does it have upon the tone of the poem ? 3. Why is the effect of this pun different from that of Thomas Hood's play on the same word in " Faithless Nelly Gray " ( quoted on p . 99 ) ? 4. What does compass denote in line 9 ? 5 ...
Page 123
... effect is euphony , as in the following lines from Tenny- son's " Come down , O maid " : The moan of doves in immemorial elms , And murmuring of innumerable bees . A harsh , discordant effect is cacophony , which may , however , be ...
... effect is euphony , as in the following lines from Tenny- son's " Come down , O maid " : The moan of doves in immemorial elms , And murmuring of innumerable bees . A harsh , discordant effect is cacophony , which may , however , be ...
Page 188
... effect as the originals . EXERCISE THREE Read all the sonnets by Shakespeare in this book . How do the final couplets of some of them resemble epigrams ? Does this diminish their effect of " seriousness " ? In English the only other ...
... effect as the originals . EXERCISE THREE Read all the sonnets by Shakespeare in this book . How do the final couplets of some of them resemble epigrams ? Does this diminish their effect of " seriousness " ? In English the only other ...
Common terms and phrases
A. E. HOUSMAN alliteration aloud attitude ballad beauty bird Blake breath called child connotations dark dead dear death diction doth E. E. Cummings earth Eliot Emily Dickinson English eyes face feel figures of speech flowers GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS green hand hath hear heart heaven Hurroo iambic iambic pentameter J. V. CUNNINGHAM John Johnny kind leaves light live look Lord meaning metaphor meter Milton mind moon mother myth never night o'er paraphrase pattern pleasure poem's poet poet's poetry prose QUESTIONS reader reading reprinted rhythm rime Robert Frost Robert Lowell simile sing sleep song sonnet soul sound speaker stanza star stress suggests sweet syllables symbol T. S. Eliot tell thee theme things Thomas thou thought tone tree verse W. H. Auden WILLIAM WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS wind words Wordsworth Yeats