A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... death lies in the attendant cessation of activity and appearance of repose . . . . " Metonymy is the describing of an object by naming something closely associated with it , as when we say , " He keeps a good table " instead of " good ...
... death lies in the attendant cessation of activity and appearance of repose . . . . " Metonymy is the describing of an object by naming something closely associated with it , as when we say , " He keeps a good table " instead of " good ...
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... death do ease my doleful state . -SIR T. WYATT , " The Lover Laments the Death of His Love " The English form invented by Surrey : The soote season , that bud and bloom forth brings , With green hath clad the hill , and eke the vale ...
... death do ease my doleful state . -SIR T. WYATT , " The Lover Laments the Death of His Love " The English form invented by Surrey : The soote season , that bud and bloom forth brings , With green hath clad the hill , and eke the vale ...
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... Death , Death and his brother Sleep ! One , pale as yonder waning moon With lips of lurid blue ; The other , rosy as the morn When throned on ocean's wave It blushes o'er the world : Yet both so passing wonderful ! Hath then the gloomy ...
... Death , Death and his brother Sleep ! One , pale as yonder waning moon With lips of lurid blue ; The other , rosy as the morn When throned on ocean's wave It blushes o'er the world : Yet both so passing wonderful ! Hath then the gloomy ...
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