A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... tell all these things is Christina Rossetti's " A Birthday " : My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a ... telling a story , express- ing some personal feeling , or depicting a scene , the poet will often incorporate ...
... tell all these things is Christina Rossetti's " A Birthday " : My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a ... telling a story , express- ing some personal feeling , or depicting a scene , the poet will often incorporate ...
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... tell the truth , the whole truth , and nothing but the truth — that is , to get all the author 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 ...
... tell the truth , the whole truth , and nothing but the truth — that is , to get all the author 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 ...
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... tell how many feet are in the line , ( 3 ) note any substitution for a basic foot , ( 4 ) report any excess or defect of unstressed syl- lables at the beginning or end of a line , ( 5 ) tell the type of final stress , ( 6 ) note the ...
... tell how many feet are in the line , ( 3 ) note any substitution for a basic foot , ( 4 ) report any excess or defect of unstressed syl- lables at the beginning or end of a line , ( 5 ) tell the type of final stress , ( 6 ) note the ...
Contents
PREFACE CHAPTER I THE POET | 1 |
THE NATURE AND USES OF POETRY | 4 |
THE LANGUAGE OF POETRY | 13 |
Copyright | |
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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