A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... Lost , V , ii Ah , woe is me ! Winter is come and gone , But grief returns with the revolving year ; The airs and streams renew their joyous tone ; The ants , the bees , the swallows reappear ; Fresh leaves and flowers deck the dead ...
... Lost , V , ii Ah , woe is me ! Winter is come and gone , But grief returns with the revolving year ; The airs and streams renew their joyous tone ; The ants , the bees , the swallows reappear ; Fresh leaves and flowers deck the dead ...
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... Lost . The mock epic is a poem which employs the grandiloquent language and the elaborate machinery of the heroic epic while dealing with a theme of trifling significance . Its purpose is usually ridicule , although it may be used in a ...
... Lost . The mock epic is a poem which employs the grandiloquent language and the elaborate machinery of the heroic epic while dealing with a theme of trifling significance . Its purpose is usually ridicule , although it may be used in a ...
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... Lost , I Six - stress verse : Somewhat apart from the village , and nearer the Basin of Minas , Benedict Bellefontaine , the wealthiest farmer of Grand - Pré , Dwelt on his goodly acres ; and with him , directing his household , Gentle ...
... Lost , I Six - stress verse : Somewhat apart from the village , and nearer the Basin of Minas , Benedict Bellefontaine , the wealthiest farmer of Grand - Pré , Dwelt on his goodly acres ; and with him , directing his household , Gentle ...
Contents
PREFACE CHAPTER I THE POET | 1 |
THE NATURE AND USES OF POETRY | 4 |
THE LANGUAGE OF POETRY | 13 |
Copyright | |
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abab accent anapest antistrophe basic foot beauty birds blank verse Browning's called catalexis century cesura common consonants couplet Cowleyan dactyl death doth drama edited 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 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 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