A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... story ; it presents a picture ; it expresses an emotional experience ; or it reflects on life . Often it does two or more of these , but even when this is true , one purpose is usually dominant . A first step , therefore , is to deter ...
... story ; it presents a picture ; it expresses an emotional experience ; or it reflects on life . Often it does two or more of these , but even when this is true , one purpose is usually dominant . A first step , therefore , is to deter ...
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... story so far as he is concerned objectively , but embodying the emo- tional experiences of the characters and relating the story in their words by means of dialogue , it belongs to the category of dramatic poetry . SUBDIVISIONS OF ...
... story so far as he is concerned objectively , but embodying the emo- tional experiences of the characters and relating the story in their words by means of dialogue , it belongs to the category of dramatic poetry . SUBDIVISIONS OF ...
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... story , as in the Robin Hood ballads of England or the Jesse James ballads of our own West . Qualities of the ballad are its simplicity of theme and form ; its impersonal tone through the expression of community rather than personal ...
... story , as in the Robin Hood ballads of England or the Jesse James ballads of our own West . Qualities of the ballad are its simplicity of theme and form ; its impersonal tone through the expression of community rather than personal ...
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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