A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... emotion in the world around him or in his own mind . Wordsworth , for instance , says that poetry " takes its origin from emotion recol- lected in tranquillity . " But to the average person such experiences tend to recede with the ...
... emotion in the world around him or in his own mind . Wordsworth , for instance , says that poetry " takes its origin from emotion recol- lected in tranquillity . " But to the average person such experiences tend to recede with the ...
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... emotion , he loses his effect unless he makes us feel the emotion acutely ourselves ; and to do this requires the nicest choice of words , lest the emotion seem too sentimental on the one hand or too commonplace on the other To such ...
... emotion , he loses his effect unless he makes us feel the emotion acutely ourselves ; and to do this requires the nicest choice of words , lest the emotion seem too sentimental on the one hand or too commonplace on the other To such ...
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... emotional qualities , their simple structure , and their brevity may be designated as pure lyrics . In general they are brief and have simple rime - schemes , permitting them to be set to music ; they treat but a single emotion and are ...
... emotional qualities , their simple structure , and their brevity may be designated as pure lyrics . In general they are brief and have simple rime - schemes , permitting them to be set to music ; they treat but a single emotion and are ...
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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