A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... definite images to make tangible things which lack defi- nite or exact dimensions or material qualities . Thus Tennyson re- fers to night as " the black bat " ; Shakespeare speaks of " jocund day " standing " tip - toe on the misty ...
... definite images to make tangible things which lack defi- nite or exact dimensions or material qualities . Thus Tennyson re- fers to night as " the black bat " ; Shakespeare speaks of " jocund day " standing " tip - toe on the misty ...
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... definite impression of something with which we are likely to be unfamiliar , through a swift allusion or resemblance to an image already within our con- sciousness . Certain figurative forms - notably simile and metaphor , called ...
... definite impression of something with which we are likely to be unfamiliar , through a swift allusion or resemblance to an image already within our con- sciousness . Certain figurative forms - notably simile and metaphor , called ...
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... definite pattern . In English poetry the foot contains either two or three syllables , one — and only one — of which is accented ( except in the spondaic foot and the pyrrhic foot , which are used only as substi- tute , never as basic ...
... definite pattern . In English poetry the foot contains either two or three syllables , one — and only one — of which is accented ( except in the spondaic foot and the pyrrhic foot , which are used only as substi- tute , never as basic ...
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