A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... poem from a mediocre one , a good way to make a start is to read in some good anthology until he finds a poem he likes , then turn to the verse in a newspaper that prints a " poem a day " by some author , and compare the two . If he ...
... poem from a mediocre one , a good way to make a start is to read in some good anthology until he finds a poem he likes , then turn to the verse in a newspaper that prints a " poem a day " by some author , and compare the two . If he ...
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... poem . The poem is a syn- thesis of form and content , which in the last analysis are insepa- rable . Yet just as we commonly describe a man's appearance apart from his innate qualities , we find it more convenient to study sepa- rately ...
... poem . The poem is a syn- thesis of form and content , which in the last analysis are insepa- rable . Yet just as we commonly describe a man's appearance apart from his innate qualities , we find it more convenient to study sepa- rately ...
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... poem that they are likely to escape the attention of a careless reader . Not infrequently , answering a few very elementary questions will set a student on the right track and lead to a correct interpre- tation of a poem . Such ...
... poem that they are likely to escape the attention of a careless reader . Not infrequently , answering a few very elementary questions will set a student on the right track and lead to a correct interpre- tation of a poem . Such ...
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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