A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... qualities - intellectual or spiritual - as separate entities , but of all as combining to make a complete being . This is but an analogy of the way in which we customarily approach the study of a poem . The poem is a syn- thesis of form ...
... qualities - intellectual or spiritual - as separate entities , but of all as combining to make a complete being . This is but an analogy of the way in which we customarily approach the study of a poem . The poem is a syn- thesis of form ...
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... Qualities of the ballad are its simplicity of theme and form ; its impersonal tone through the expression of community rather than personal feeling ; its tendency towards melodrama ; its lack of rhe- torical devices save simple rime ...
... Qualities of the ballad are its simplicity of theme and form ; its impersonal tone through the expression of community rather than personal feeling ; its tendency towards melodrama ; its lack of rhe- torical devices save simple rime ...
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... qualities , but the emotion is restrained and is subservient to intellectual or even con- templative qualities . Here belong poems like Wordsworth's " Tin- tern Abbey , " Longfellow's " Bells of San Blas , " Emerson's " Each and All ...
... qualities , but the emotion is restrained and is subservient to intellectual or even con- templative qualities . Here belong poems like Wordsworth's " Tin- tern Abbey , " Longfellow's " Bells of San Blas , " Emerson's " Each and All ...
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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