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... seems to regard her book - child with tender sympathy , amusement , and a certain indulgent awareness of all its faults . Poems like this , that have humor , are sometimes confounded with so - called light verse . This term seems to ...
... seems to regard her book - child with tender sympathy , amusement , and a certain indulgent awareness of all its faults . Poems like this , that have humor , are sometimes confounded with so - called light verse . This term seems to ...
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... seems not only a pun on the name of a month , but also a portmanteau word into which at least two familiar words are packed . Say it aloud . What are they ? 4. What dictionary definitions of the word quirk seem relevant to line 2 ? How ...
... seems not only a pun on the name of a month , but also a portmanteau word into which at least two familiar words are packed . Say it aloud . What are they ? 4. What dictionary definitions of the word quirk seem relevant to line 2 ? How ...
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... seem almost monotonously regular . Note the variation in line 3 of this passage by Christopher Marlowe : - Was this ... seems appropriate to convey the ideas of a tolling bell and a plowman wearily setting down one foot after the other ...
... seem almost monotonously regular . Note the variation in line 3 of this passage by Christopher Marlowe : - Was this ... seems appropriate to convey the ideas of a tolling bell and a plowman wearily setting down one foot after the 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