A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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Gerald De Witt Sanders. cede any understanding of it or liking for it , for out of thoughtful reading comes understanding ; and out of understanding , apprecia- tion ; and out of appreciation , a new approach to thinking — in fine , a ...
Gerald De Witt Sanders. cede any understanding of it or liking for it , for out of thoughtful reading comes understanding ; and out of understanding , apprecia- tion ; and out of appreciation , a new approach to thinking — in fine , a ...
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... understanding of the poem itself . Fourth , in what age , season , month , or even at what time of day does a poem take place ? Again such answers are not possible for all poems . A poem which expresses feeling primarily , for in ...
... understanding of the poem itself . Fourth , in what age , season , month , or even at what time of day does a poem take place ? Again such answers are not possible for all poems . A poem which expresses feeling primarily , for in ...
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... understanding , and thence to the highest appreciation , of a poet's work . Finally , whether he is interpreting a single poem or all the work of a poet , the student's aim should be that which is supposed to animate a witness in court ...
... understanding , and thence to the highest appreciation , of a poet's work . Finally , whether he is interpreting a single poem or all the work of a poet , the student's aim should be that which is supposed to animate a witness in court ...
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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