A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... belong to the same class , as when one 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 ...
... belong to the same class , as when one 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 ...
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... belong such poems as Poe's " Raven , " Francis Thompson's " Hound of Heaven , " Shelley's " To a Skylark , " and D. G. Rossetti's " Blessed Damozel . " Reflective poetry . - Reflective poems comprise still another group . These may have ...
... belong such poems as Poe's " Raven , " Francis Thompson's " Hound of Heaven , " Shelley's " To a Skylark , " and D. G. Rossetti's " Blessed Damozel . " Reflective poetry . - Reflective poems comprise still another group . These may have ...
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... belong to the best traditions of English poetry . Some older examples of free verse follow ; for more recent ones , the student may consult any recent anthology . This , this is he ; softly a while ; Let us not break in upon him . O ...
... belong to the best traditions of English poetry . Some older examples of free verse follow ; for more recent ones , the student may consult any recent anthology . This , this is he ; softly a while ; Let us not break in upon him . O ...
Contents
PREFACE CHAPTER I THE POET | 1 |
THE NATURE AND USES OF POETRY | 4 |
THE LANGUAGE OF POETRY | 13 |
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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