A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... marks of a good poem will help . One important mark is the presence of an imaginative element . An evidence of this is the ability of the poet to interpret old matter 2 An instance is Amy Lowell's Can Grande's Castle , which is more ...
... marks of a good poem will help . One important mark is the presence of an imaginative element . An evidence of this is the ability of the poet to interpret old matter 2 An instance is Amy Lowell's Can Grande's Castle , which is more ...
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... mark of poetry is the presence of the emotional ele- ment . Feeling an experience acutely , and wishing to create in his reader the same depth of feeling which he has , the poet associates certain emotions with the experience to give it ...
... mark of poetry is the presence of the emotional ele- ment . Feeling an experience acutely , and wishing to create in his reader the same depth of feeling which he has , the poet associates certain emotions with the experience to give it ...
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... mark of poetry is restraint , the lack of which may lead to a false show of emotion and to the use of over - ornate language , both evidences of mediocrity . The power to place a proper check on feeling and on language , and from a ...
... mark of poetry is restraint , the lack of which may lead to a false show of emotion and to the use of over - ornate language , both evidences of mediocrity . The power to place a proper check on feeling and on language , and from a ...
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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