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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... object to bed , bad or beads ; tin , tent ; lick , lacked ) . Some of the rhymes of Dylan Thomas , for example , are so distant they are out of my auditory range ; so while I don't object to them , I can't appreciate them . Since his ...
... object to bed , bad or beads ; tin , tent ; lick , lacked ) . Some of the rhymes of Dylan Thomas , for example , are so distant they are out of my auditory range ; so while I don't object to them , I can't appreciate them . Since his ...
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... object is complex by virtue of its innate ability to stand up and occupy space . Two artistic principles are involved . For the poem to stand alone , the poet must cut himself off from it , which means establishing a separate , larger ...
... object is complex by virtue of its innate ability to stand up and occupy space . Two artistic principles are involved . For the poem to stand alone , the poet must cut himself off from it , which means establishing a separate , larger ...
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... object . The object of the poem is what might once have been called its moral : conveying the sense of the un- satisfactory quality of experience as we too often know it and a vision of how it might be different - how the eye might be ...
... object . The object of the poem is what might once have been called its moral : conveying the sense of the un- satisfactory quality of experience as we too often know it and a vision of how it might be different - how the eye might be ...
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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accent alliteration amateur anapest beat become begin better bird cadence century clichés color complex conventional counterstatement couplet course critical death deliberately diction Donne doublevision dramatic Dryden Dylan Thomas E. E. Cummings effect Emily Dickinson emotional English example experience eyes fact feeling feminine rhymes free verse Frost give hear humor iamb iambic iambic pentameter imagine imply kind language less light literary look Marianne Moore meaning metaphor meter metrical mind Miniver Miniver Cheevy mystery never notice pattern pentameter perhaps phrase poem poet poet's poetic prose quatrain reader reason rhyme rhythm satire seems sense sentence Shakespeare shape sleep sonnet soul sound spondees stanza statement stress suggest sure sweet syllables symbols thing thou thought thump tion tone trochees units values variety verse voice W. B. Yeats Westron words writing poetry Yeats