A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... thought , the lofty courage , the beautiful imagery of the poet , transmitted to us in words the most fitting for ... thoughts , it leads us to action , so that what without it is only potential in us , becomes kinetic ; and we , like ...
... thought , the lofty courage , the beautiful imagery of the poet , transmitted to us in words the most fitting for ... thoughts , it leads us to action , so that what without it is only potential in us , becomes kinetic ; and we , like ...
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... thought . -SHELLEY , " To a Skylark " ( abccb ) There was a time when all mankind Did listen with a faith sincere To tuneful tongues in mystery versed ; Then Poets fearlessly rehearsed The wonders of a wild career . -WORDSWORTH ...
... thought . -SHELLEY , " To a Skylark " ( abccb ) There was a time when all mankind Did listen with a faith sincere To tuneful tongues in mystery versed ; Then Poets fearlessly rehearsed The wonders of a wild career . -WORDSWORTH ...
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... thought of grief : A timely utterance gave that thought relief , And I again am strong : The cataracts blow their trumpets from the steep ; No more shall grief of mine the season wrong ; I hear the echoes through the mountains throng ...
... thought of grief : A timely utterance gave that thought relief , And I again am strong : The cataracts blow their trumpets from the steep ; No more shall grief of mine the season wrong ; I hear the echoes through the mountains throng ...
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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