A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... usually dominant . A first step , therefore , is to deter- mine which the poet is trying to do in any given poem . This is usually not difficult , particularly if the poem tells a story or pre- sents a picture of a scene or person ...
... usually dominant . A first step , therefore , is to deter- mine which the poet is trying to do in any given poem . This is usually not difficult , particularly if the poem tells a story or pre- sents a picture of a scene or person ...
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... usually clues , to be sure , but they are not dwelt upon as the writer of prose dwells on them ; instead , they are insinuated so casually into the poem that they are likely to escape the attention of a careless reader . Not ...
... usually clues , to be sure , but they are not dwelt upon as the writer of prose dwells on them ; instead , they are insinuated so casually into the poem that they are likely to escape the attention of a careless reader . Not ...
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... usually , but not always , the character known technically as the hero or heroine is opposed by forces or circumstances which , usually because of some flaw in himself , he cannot overcome , thus lead- ing to his frustration . Comedy is ...
... usually , but not always , the character known technically as the hero or heroine is opposed by forces or circumstances which , usually because of some flaw in himself , he cannot overcome , thus lead- ing to his frustration . Comedy 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