A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... meant to imply here , of course , that humorous verse is likely to be uniformly of poor quality . Such verse may at times be employed to call attention to abuses or to ridicule absurdities , and it may have as sincere a purpose as the ...
... meant to imply here , of course , that humorous verse is likely to be uniformly of poor quality . Such verse may at times be employed to call attention to abuses or to ridicule absurdities , and it may have as sincere a purpose as the ...
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... meant to be pleasing , the most accurate ones . In the following discussion of these aspects of the poetic style it is not meant to imply that they are peculiar to poetry alone . In some degree all these elements are present in prose ...
... meant to be pleasing , the most accurate ones . In the following discussion of these aspects of the poetic style it is not meant to imply that they are peculiar to poetry alone . In some degree all these elements are present in prose ...
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... meant to convey , but avoid reading into the poem meanings which the author never intended . Such an aim cannot be attained at once by a stu- dent whose training in reading poetry is meager . To give the gen- eral sense of a poem is ...
... meant to convey , but avoid reading into the poem meanings which the author never intended . Such an aim cannot be attained at once by a stu- dent whose training in reading poetry is meager . To give the gen- eral sense of a poem is ...
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