A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... themes . Such a poem , for instance , as Pope's " Rape of the Lock , " at first seems to be much ado about a trifle ... theme is not important , the mood is ; and the mood must always be sincere for the result to be entitled to the high ...
... themes . Such a poem , for instance , as Pope's " Rape of the Lock , " at first seems to be much ado about a trifle ... theme is not important , the mood is ; and the mood must always be sincere for the result to be entitled to the high ...
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... themes , the ballad with those common to ordinary people ; the epic treats of racial or na- tional activities , the ballad of personal deeds , frequently of single episodes , although at times a number of single episodes relating to one ...
... themes , the ballad with those common to ordinary people ; the epic treats of racial or na- tional activities , the ballad of personal deeds , frequently of single episodes , although at times a number of single episodes relating to one ...
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... theme , as lyrics of love , nature , death ( elegiac poetry ) , religion , patriotism , and the like . Such a method is satisfactory , but it needs no extended comment , since poems deal- ing with these various themes are easily ...
... theme , as lyrics of love , nature , death ( elegiac poetry ) , religion , patriotism , and the like . Such a method is satisfactory , but it needs no extended comment , since poems deal- ing with these various themes are easily ...
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