A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... reason , of poetry to the emotions and the imagination . Yet the boundaries between the two are not absolute , and there are frequent shadings of one into the other . It is difficult , for in- stance , for one listening to certain ...
... reason , of poetry to the emotions and the imagination . Yet the boundaries between the two are not absolute , and there are frequent shadings of one into the other . It is difficult , for in- stance , for one listening to certain ...
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... reason for the poet's telling the story . Was it merely to please or entertain , as was Holmes's purpose in " The Deacon's Masterpiece , " Lowell's in " The Courtin ' , " and Alfred Noyes's in " The Highwayman " ? Was it to teach a ...
... reason for the poet's telling the story . Was it merely to please or entertain , as was Holmes's purpose in " The Deacon's Masterpiece , " Lowell's in " The Courtin ' , " and Alfred Noyes's in " The Highwayman " ? Was it to teach a ...
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... reason for the occurrence of accent grows out of the impor- tance of the word in the line and is based on the general practice of stressing important words . Such reason for accent is called rhetorical . The third reason for accent is ...
... reason for the occurrence of accent grows out of the impor- tance of the word in the line and is based on the general practice of stressing important words . Such reason for accent is called rhetorical . The third reason for accent is ...
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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