A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... usually employed as supplementary to rime as an emphasiz- ing element , but in the following poem replaces rime : Maiden , crowned with glossy blackness , Lithe as panther forest - roaming , Long - armed naiad , when she dances , On a ...
... usually employed as supplementary to rime as an emphasiz- ing element , but in the following poem replaces rime : Maiden , crowned with glossy blackness , Lithe as panther forest - roaming , Long - armed naiad , when she dances , On a ...
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... usually dominant . A first step , therefore , is to deter- mine which the poet is trying to do in any given poem . This is usually not difficult , particularly if the poem tells a story or pre- sents a picture of a scene or person ...
... usually dominant . A first step , therefore , is to deter- mine which the poet is trying to do in any given poem . This is usually not difficult , particularly if the poem tells a story or pre- sents a picture of a scene or person ...
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... usually , but not always , the character known technically as the hero or heroine is opposed by forces or circumstances which , usually because of some flaw in himself , he cannot overcome , thus lead- ing to his frustration . Comedy is ...
... usually , but not always , the character known technically as the hero or heroine is opposed by forces or circumstances which , usually because of some flaw in himself , he cannot overcome , thus lead- ing to his frustration . Comedy is ...
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