A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... language . I is the product when a brooding imagination finds in man and natur deep matter for consideration and ... language of the imagination and the passions universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself the • an ...
... language . I is the product when a brooding imagination finds in man and natur deep matter for consideration and ... language of the imagination and the passions universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself the • an ...
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... language . And since the effects which the poet at- tempts to build up result chiefly from an appeal to the emotions ... language , the poet has responded by evolving a style in which concrete terms predominate , figurative language is ...
... language . And since the effects which the poet at- tempts to build up result chiefly from an appeal to the emotions ... language , the poet has responded by evolving a style in which concrete terms predominate , figurative language is ...
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... LANGUAGE Another characteristic of poetry is figurative language , which is but an added evidence of concreteness in poetry , for in the final analysis figures of speech are short cuts to the transmission of ac- curate ideas and exact ...
... LANGUAGE Another characteristic of poetry is figurative language , which is but an added evidence of concreteness in poetry , for in the final analysis figures of speech are short cuts to the transmission of ac- curate ideas and exact ...
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