A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... belong to the same class , as when one says , " This hat is like yours . ' But when a direct comparison is made between objects that belong to different classes , the author is creating a figure called simile . Thus when Burns says " my ...
... belong to the same class , as when one says , " This hat is like yours . ' But when a direct comparison is made between objects that belong to different classes , the author is creating a figure called simile . Thus when Burns says " my ...
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... belong to this genre , as does Spenser's Faerie Queene . The popular ballad is a folk product . In old days when there were no newspapers , and when the common folk had no books or , in still earlier times , no manuscripts , happenings ...
... belong to this genre , as does Spenser's Faerie Queene . The popular ballad is a folk product . In old days when there were no newspapers , and when the common folk had no books or , in still earlier times , no manuscripts , happenings ...
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... belong such poems as Poe's " Raven , " Francis Thompson's " Hound of Heaven , " Shelley's " To a Skylark , " and D. G. Rossetti's " Blessed Damozel . " Reflective poetry . - Reflective poems comprise still another group . These may have ...
... belong such poems as Poe's " Raven , " Francis Thompson's " Hound of Heaven , " Shelley's " To a Skylark , " and D. G. Rossetti's " Blessed Damozel . " Reflective poetry . - Reflective poems comprise still another group . These may have ...
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abab accent anapest antistrophe basic foot beauty birds blank verse Browning's called catalexis century cesura CHAPTER common consonants couplet Cowleyan dactyl death doth drama elements emotion employed English poetry English verse envoy epode examples experience expression feeling feet free verse give Greek hath Heaven heroic epic iamb iambic pentameter ideas imagination important instance Italian form Keats language light lines LONGFELLOW love thee Lowell's lyric poetry matter Matthew Arnold metre metrical scheme Milton mind narrative poetry night o'er Paradise Lost pause person Pindar poem poet poetic popular ballad prose prosody qualities quatrain rhetorical rhythm rime-scheme riming words Robert Bridges Rose sense Shakespeare Shelley Shelley's sing song sonnet soul sounds Spenser's stanza stanzaic forms story stress strophe structure student sweet syllables rime TENNYSON tercet themes things thou thought tion trochaic trochee understanding unstressed syllables usually vowels W. B. Yeats Whitman's WORDSWORTH writing written