A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... hand , seems able long after the event to recall his experience and reproduce an emotion with the same acute consciousness as when they were new . He has a wider and more varied experience than most men- the result , first , of his ...
... hand , seems able long after the event to recall his experience and reproduce an emotion with the same acute consciousness as when they were new . He has a wider and more varied experience than most men- the result , first , of his ...
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... hand or too commonplace on the other . To such skill in the use of language , the poet has responded by evolving a style in which concrete terms predominate , figurative language is freely employed , and words are grouped according to ...
... hand or too commonplace on the other . To such skill in the use of language , the poet has responded by evolving a style in which concrete terms predominate , figurative language is freely employed , and words are grouped according to ...
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... hand , Whom Saxon Cadmon calls the blithe - heart King . -LONGFELLOW , " The Birds of Killingworth " Assonance is the agreement of vowel sounds in words wherein the consonant sounds differ , as in the phrase " Molten golden notes . " It ...
... hand , Whom Saxon Cadmon calls the blithe - heart King . -LONGFELLOW , " The Birds of Killingworth " Assonance is the agreement of vowel sounds in words wherein the consonant sounds differ , as in the phrase " Molten golden notes . " It ...
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abab accent anapest antistrophe basic foot beauty birds blank verse Browning's called catalexis century cesura CHAPTER 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 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