A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE Another characteristic of poetry is figurative language , which is but an added evidence of concreteness in poetry , for in the final analysis figures of speech are short cuts to the transmission of ac- curate ideas ...
... FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE Another characteristic of poetry is figurative language , which is but an added evidence of concreteness in poetry , for in the final analysis figures of speech are short cuts to the transmission of ac- curate ideas ...
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... figurative language , but in considerable evidence neverthe- less , is the reference to other literature or to historical events . Such references are called allusions . The most important storehouses of literature which poets ransack ...
... figurative language , but in considerable evidence neverthe- less , is the reference to other literature or to historical events . Such references are called allusions . The most important storehouses of literature which poets ransack ...
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... figurative language , poetry has a somewhat greater tendency than prose to make use of certain spe- cial devices of style , two of which are worth noting . One of these , sentence inversion , although frowned upon by contemporary poets ...
... figurative language , poetry has a somewhat greater tendency than prose to make use of certain spe- cial devices of style , two of which are worth noting . One of these , sentence inversion , although frowned upon by contemporary poets ...
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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