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... poet's thoughts and emotions . It is something further : a statement that the poet's thoughts and emotions have led him to make . As W. H. Auden has observed : " Why do you want to write poetry ? " If the young man an- swers : " I have ...
... poet's thoughts and emotions . It is something further : a statement that the poet's thoughts and emotions have led him to make . As W. H. Auden has observed : " Why do you want to write poetry ? " If the young man an- swers : " I have ...
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... poet is introducing a merry note . " But a single foot doesn't make a meter ; it stands out as a variation . Had he ... poet's sympathy with that universal human nature . . . which exists outside his own . " 2 Another view of the value ...
... poet is introducing a merry note . " But a single foot doesn't make a meter ; it stands out as a variation . Had he ... poet's sympathy with that universal human nature . . . which exists outside his own . " 2 Another view of the value ...
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... poets ( in The Poet's Craft ) . A master of inspired revising , Yeats discarded lines that a lesser poet would have been grateful for . In some cases - an example fol- lows - his final version was practically a new poem . WILLIAM BUTLER ...
... poets ( in The Poet's Craft ) . A master of inspired revising , Yeats discarded lines that a lesser poet would have been grateful for . In some cases - an example fol- lows - his final version was practically a new poem . WILLIAM BUTLER ...
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