A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 14
Page 10
... say : Pray you , undo this button : thank you , sir . And another is in Webster's Duchess of Malfi , where the duchess , about to be slain at the instigation of her brothers , instead of break- ing into a passionate speech , says to her ...
... say : Pray you , undo this button : thank you , sir . And another is in Webster's Duchess of Malfi , where the duchess , about to be slain at the instigation of her brothers , instead of break- ing into a passionate speech , says to her ...
Page 16
... says , " This hat is like yours . ' But when a direct comparison is made between objects that belong to different classes , the author is creating a figure called simile . Thus when Burns says " my luve is like a red , red rose , " he ...
... says , " This hat is like yours . ' But when a direct comparison is made between objects that belong to different classes , the author is creating a figure called simile . Thus when Burns says " my luve is like a red , red rose , " he ...
Page 17
... say , " He keeps a good table " instead of " good food " ; or " Our ships opened fire " instead of " our sailors " ; or as in the line from " A Dream of Fair Women , " where instead of saying , " the knife quivered , " Tennyson says ...
... say , " He keeps a good table " instead of " good food " ; or " Our ships opened fire " instead of " our sailors " ; or as in the line from " A Dream of Fair Women , " where instead of saying , " the knife quivered , " Tennyson says ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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