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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 ridicules some person or persons , or some aspect of human behavior , examining his victim by the light of his ... poet can write a lyric stating more than his own personal experience . It is sometimes said that a lyric expresses ...
... poet ridicules some person or persons , or some aspect of human behavior , examining his victim by the light of his ... poet can write a lyric stating more than his own personal experience . It is sometimes said that a lyric expresses ...
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... poet is a master who kept revising his work over many years , as Yeats did , we may learn a great deal . Revising his work , the poet has had to make some merciless evaluations . By setting earlier and later versions side by side , we ...
... poet is a master who kept revising his work over many years , as Yeats did , we may learn a great deal . Revising his work , the poet has had to make some merciless evaluations . By setting earlier and later versions side by side , we ...
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