A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... things - more prosaic or more imagina- tive - may be said of poetry by way of describing or explaining it yet none is in any real sense a definition ; for poetry , in common with such other abstract things as art , beauty , love , and ...
... things - more prosaic or more imagina- tive - may be said of poetry by way of describing or explaining it yet none is in any real sense a definition ; for poetry , in common with such other abstract things as art , beauty , love , and ...
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... things or of one thing to or with another , consisting in the resemblance not of the things themselves but of two or more at- tributes , circumstances , or effects ; thus , the analogy between sleep and death lies in the attendant ...
... things or of one thing to or with another , consisting in the resemblance not of the things themselves but of two or more at- tributes , circumstances , or effects ; thus , the analogy between sleep and death lies in the attendant ...
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... thing of the character of the author can be adduced from the poem . An example of this type of poem in which it is possible to tell all these things is Christina Rossetti's " A Birthday " : My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is ...
... thing of the character of the author can be adduced from the poem . An example of this type of poem in which it is possible to tell all these things is Christina Rossetti's " A Birthday " : My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is ...
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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