A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... effects . Knowing some of the characteristics of a good poem is not enough , however , to give one a discriminating taste in poetry . Awareness of these characteristics will help , but this knowledge must be supplemented by much reading ...
... effects . Knowing some of the characteristics of a good poem is not enough , however , to give one a discriminating taste in poetry . Awareness of these characteristics will help , but this knowledge must be supplemented by much reading ...
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Gerald De Witt Sanders. CHAPTER III THE LANGUAGE OF POETRY ALL the effects which poetry secures it must secure ... effect unless he makes us feel the emotion acutely ourselves ; and to do this requires the nicest choice of words , lest ...
Gerald De Witt Sanders. CHAPTER III THE LANGUAGE OF POETRY ALL the effects which poetry secures it must secure ... effect unless he makes us feel the emotion acutely ourselves ; and to do this requires the nicest choice of words , lest ...
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... effects the sense requires . Thus they make use of long vowels to suggest slow and deliberate movement and of short ... effect gained here is through the choice of vowels . Various other elements , discussed elsewhere , enter . The point ...
... effects the sense requires . Thus they make use of long vowels to suggest slow and deliberate movement and of short ... effect gained here is through the choice of vowels . Various other elements , discussed elsewhere , enter . The point ...
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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