A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... qualities of a sustained metaphor , since it is the representation by means of a figurative story of something different which is suggested but not stated . Another form of comparison is analogy , defined in Webster's New International ...
... qualities of a sustained metaphor , since it is the representation by means of a figurative story of something different which is suggested but not stated . Another form of comparison is analogy , defined in Webster's New International ...
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... Qualities of the ballad are its simplicity of theme and form ; its impersonal tone through the expression of community rather than personal feeling ; its tendency towards melodrama ; its lack of rhe- torical devices save simple rime ...
... Qualities of the ballad are its simplicity of theme and form ; its impersonal tone through the expression of community rather than personal feeling ; its tendency towards melodrama ; its lack of rhe- torical devices save simple rime ...
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... qualities , but the emotion is restrained and is subservient to intellectual or even con- templative qualities . Here belong poems like Wordsworth's " Tin- tern Abbey , " Longfellow's " Bells of San Blas , " Emerson's " Each and All ...
... qualities , but the emotion is restrained and is subservient to intellectual or even con- templative qualities . Here belong poems like Wordsworth's " Tin- tern Abbey , " Longfellow's " Bells of San Blas , " Emerson's " Each and All ...
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