A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... person . He is aware of nice distinctions in both the inner and outer worlds -nature and the mind - and apprehends subtle influences that pass unheeded by prosaic folk . Bits of knowledge , inappreciable expe- riences , evanescent ...
... person . He is aware of nice distinctions in both the inner and outer worlds -nature and the mind - and apprehends subtle influences that pass unheeded by prosaic folk . Bits of knowledge , inappreciable expe- riences , evanescent ...
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... person speaking ? To any chance reader , to a particular type of reader , or to some particular person described or suggested in the poem itself ? If it is the latter , what is the relation of the listener to the speaker ? What is the ...
... person speaking ? To any chance reader , to a particular type of reader , or to some particular person described or suggested in the poem itself ? If it is the latter , what is the relation of the listener to the speaker ? What is the ...
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... persons , but occasionally between a person and some force or set of circumstances , or between different forces within a single indi- vidual . It is developed by dialogue and is usually written for pres- entation on a stage through the ...
... persons , but occasionally between a person and some force or set of circumstances , or between different forces within a single indi- vidual . It is developed by dialogue and is usually written for pres- entation on a stage through the ...
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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