A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... nature to appreciate his product , or to know how poetry is created to like it . Yet to have some ele- mentary knowledge of the poet may aid the student in understand- ing poetry itself . In the first place , the poet has an exquisitely ...
... nature to appreciate his product , or to know how poetry is created to like it . Yet to have some ele- mentary knowledge of the poet may aid the student in understand- ing poetry itself . In the first place , the poet has an exquisitely ...
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... NATURE AND USES OF POETRY POETRY is emotionalized experience . It is universal truth i thought or feeling , transmuted by the imagination into fitting images and expressed in ... nature . . . the high [ 4 ] THE NATURE AND USES OF POETRY.
... NATURE AND USES OF POETRY POETRY is emotionalized experience . It is universal truth i thought or feeling , transmuted by the imagination into fitting images and expressed in ... nature . . . the high [ 4 ] THE NATURE AND USES OF POETRY.
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... nature or love poem , and an ode might be didactic , and a poem about nature might be incidentally a satire . Hence to avoid this confusion , although the arrangement is not an ideal one because no sharp line can be drawn between the ...
... nature or love poem , and an ode might be didactic , and a poem about nature might be incidentally a satire . Hence to avoid this confusion , although the arrangement is not an ideal one because no sharp line can be drawn between the ...
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