The Poet and the PoemA discussion of the poet's inherent attitudes, the more technical matters of verse writing, and the application of principles to actual practice. |
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... leaves or none , or few , do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold , Bare ruin'd choirs , where late the sweet birds sang . Notice the absolute regularity of the first three lines , the even alternation of stressed and ...
... leaves or none , or few , do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold , Bare ruin'd choirs , where late the sweet birds sang . Notice the absolute regularity of the first three lines , the even alternation of stressed and ...
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... beat and see whether that leaves you a comprehensible organization . Donne's lines , you see , do . But there are , as I count them , only ten pure iambs in twenty feet ; moreover , it is iambs in succession that 54 The Poet and the Poem.
... beat and see whether that leaves you a comprehensible organization . Donne's lines , you see , do . But there are , as I count them , only ten pure iambs in twenty feet ; moreover , it is iambs in succession that 54 The Poet and the Poem.
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... leaves the imaginative leap to our own courage and sensibility . It is a fairly easy leap because the texture of the ... leaf of a door , my guess is that she meant something organic ( like the valves of the heart ) . The point , though ...
... leaves the imaginative leap to our own courage and sensibility . It is a fairly easy leap because the texture of the ... leaf of a door , my guess is that she meant something organic ( like the valves of the heart ) . The point , though ...
Contents
FOOTHILLS OF PARNASSUSOR WHY BOTHER? | 14 |
Six Senses of the Poet | 20 |
Pole Vaulting Does Not Require an Individual Style | 34 |
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