A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... interest in the matter we are reading is enhanced by associating with it ideas we have come upon elsewhere . Some examples of allusions , arranged roughly in the order of their diffi- culty , follow : The sparrows chirped as if they ...
... interest in the matter we are reading is enhanced by associating with it ideas we have come upon elsewhere . Some examples of allusions , arranged roughly in the order of their diffi- culty , follow : The sparrows chirped as if they ...
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... interest the author ? Is his chief preoccupation with nature or humanity ? If the former , is it with landscapes , seascapes , such larger segments as mountains , prairies , valleys , or with such things as birds and bees and flowers ...
... interest the author ? Is his chief preoccupation with nature or humanity ? If the former , is it with landscapes , seascapes , such larger segments as mountains , prairies , valleys , or with such things as birds and bees and flowers ...
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... interests to the elementary emotions , such as love , hate , jealousy , fear , and cupidity ; and its preoccupation with subjects of folk interest . Its themes are domestic and love tragedies ; folk lore and superstition ; border and ...
... interests to the elementary emotions , such as love , hate , jealousy , fear , and cupidity ; and its preoccupation with subjects of folk interest . Its themes are domestic and love tragedies ; folk lore and superstition ; border and ...
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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