A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... expressing his ideas and emotions in adequate images . This is one of his rarest attri- butes , for the expression of emotionalized experience in fitting lan- guage is the culmination of man's ability to communicate , and in this the ...
... expressing his ideas and emotions in adequate images . This is one of his rarest attri- butes , for the expression of emotionalized experience in fitting lan- guage is the culmination of man's ability to communicate , and in this the ...
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... expression to an emotion or is a reflection on some phase of exist- ence , the student after a little practice should be able to tell for what purpose the author wrote it . And then having done this , he is ready to begin a more careful ...
... expression to an emotion or is a reflection on some phase of exist- ence , the student after a little practice should be able to tell for what purpose the author wrote it . And then having done this , he is ready to begin a more careful ...
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... expression for any of these forms , actually few melodramas and farces have been written in verse . Much of the tragedy and comedy of past times , however , was written as poetry . All the great Greek dramatists - Eschylus , Sophocles ...
... expression for any of these forms , actually few melodramas and farces have been written in verse . Much of the tragedy and comedy of past times , however , was written as poetry . All the great Greek dramatists - Eschylus , Sophocles ...
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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