A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 12
Page 12
... If we read poetry day by day , our lives will inevitably become richer , and the way be increasingly clearer as to how we should think and , think- ing , act . L CHAPTER III THE LANGUAGE OF POETRY ALL the effects [ 12 ] A POETRY PRIMER.
... If we read poetry day by day , our lives will inevitably become richer , and the way be increasingly clearer as to how we should think and , think- ing , act . L CHAPTER III THE LANGUAGE OF POETRY ALL the effects [ 12 ] A POETRY PRIMER.
Page 13
Gerald De Witt Sanders. L CHAPTER III THE LANGUAGE OF POETRY ALL the effects which poetry secures it must secure ... effect unless he makes us feel the emotion acutely ourselves ; and to do this requires the nicest choice of words , lest ...
Gerald De Witt Sanders. L CHAPTER III THE LANGUAGE OF POETRY ALL the effects which poetry secures it must secure ... effect unless he makes us feel the emotion acutely ourselves ; and to do this requires the nicest choice of words , lest ...
Page 21
... effects the sense requires . Thus they make use of long vowels to suggest slow and deliberate movement and of short ... effect gained here is through the choice of vowels . Various other elements , discussed elsewhere , enter . The point ...
... effects the sense requires . Thus they make use of long vowels to suggest slow and deliberate movement and of short ... effect gained here is through the choice of vowels . Various other elements , discussed elsewhere , enter . The point ...
Contents
PREFACE CHAPTER I THE POET | 1 |
THE NATURE AND USES OF POETRY | 4 |
THE LANGUAGE OF POETRY | 13 |
Copyright | |
9 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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