Preface to PoetryHarcourt, Brace, 1946 - 737 pages |
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... comparable sorts of eye - movement in the process of reading . ( b ) Long- fellow's " A Psalm of Life " is in one of the stanzaic forms ; that is , the poem is made up of groups of similar lines identical in number and related by means ...
... comparable sorts of eye - movement in the process of reading . ( b ) Long- fellow's " A Psalm of Life " is in one of the stanzaic forms ; that is , the poem is made up of groups of similar lines identical in number and related by means ...
Page 168
... comparable to the thoughts which the poet tried to express through the words of the poem . But we shall return to this point in a later paragraph . 3. TONE , FEELING , AND INTENTION The meaning of a poem is very much more than the mere ...
... comparable to the thoughts which the poet tried to express through the words of the poem . But we shall return to this point in a later paragraph . 3. TONE , FEELING , AND INTENTION The meaning of a poem is very much more than the mere ...
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... comparable to the poet's . He may enjoy the " music " and imagery that are stimulated by it ; he may get the sense of it quite completely , and recognize the feeling phase of the meaning ; but he may not himself experience any stir of ...
... comparable to the poet's . He may enjoy the " music " and imagery that are stimulated by it ; he may get the sense of it quite completely , and recognize the feeling phase of the meaning ; but he may not himself experience any stir of ...
Contents
ORIENTATION TO POETRY i Preconceptions and Pointers | 3 |
In Search of Poetry | 21 |
Language and Art | 42 |
Copyright | |
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A. E. Housman aloud Amy Lowell anapestic attitudes auditory ballad Beauty breath called chapter clouds critical dead death dream E. E. Cummings earth emotional response experience eye-movements eyes free imagery free verse Frost full meaning give hand hath heard heart heaven I. A. Richards iambic interpretation John Keats King language listening look Lord Lord Randal Louis Untermeyer lyric metrical pattern metrical variation mind's-ear mood never night over-all meaning persons phrase poem poem-experience poem-reading-experience poet poetic form poetic rhythm poetry printed verses prose reader reading recorded reread rime Robert Robert Frost rose Sea-Fever sense pattern silent sing song sonnet sort soul sound pattern speech stanza stanzaic form stir stressed SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY sweet syllables T. S. Eliot thee things thou thought tion tone translation turn Vincent Millay visual voice wind words