Preface to PoetryHarcourt, Brace, 1946 - 737 pages |
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... interpret . Or the poet may not be at hand to answer the question , and he may never have written a note of explanation . What then ? Well , interpretation is not merely a guessing game . It is a game of skill and judgment . Where ...
... interpret . Or the poet may not be at hand to answer the question , and he may never have written a note of explanation . What then ? Well , interpretation is not merely a guessing game . It is a game of skill and judgment . Where ...
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... interpretation that is rich in these particular data . If he doesn't know anything about who wrote the poem and the circumstances of its composition , then the reader will have a context for interpretation that is poor in these ...
... interpretation that is rich in these particular data . If he doesn't know anything about who wrote the poem and the circumstances of its composition , then the reader will have a context for interpretation that is poor in these ...
Page 190
... interpretation of the second , third , and fourth stanzas . Jot down the several senses of the possibly ambiguous words and phrases . As you conclude each stanza , look back to the final lines of the preceding stanzas . ( c ) Write a ...
... interpretation of the second , third , and fourth stanzas . Jot down the several senses of the possibly ambiguous words and phrases . As you conclude each stanza , look back to the final lines of the preceding stanzas . ( c ) Write a ...
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