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... object plus subject , instead of the usual subject plus object — seems fitting to the extraordinary nature of the event described and possibly even imitates 54.
... object plus subject , instead of the usual subject plus object — seems fitting to the extraordinary nature of the event described and possibly even imitates 54.
Page 109
... object like a newspaper , a gesture like a nod . Eliot might , like Robert Frost , have called himself a " synecdochist . " Frost explained : " Always a larger significance . A little thing touches a larger thing . " This power of ...
... object like a newspaper , a gesture like a nod . Eliot might , like Robert Frost , have called himself a " synecdochist . " Frost explained : " Always a larger significance . A little thing touches a larger thing . " This power of ...
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... object seems to call for , as in these lines to a girl who caused scandal ( the exact nature of her act never being specified ) : " The gossip in each hall / Will curse your name ... / Go ! better cast yourself right down the falls ...
... object seems to call for , as in these lines to a girl who caused scandal ( the exact nature of her act never being specified ) : " The gossip in each hall / Will curse your name ... / Go ! better cast yourself right down the falls ...
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