Preface to PoetryHarcourt, Brace, 1946 - 737 pages |
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... KEEP A - GOIN ' Frank L. Stanton If you strike a thorn or rose , Keep a - goin ' ! If it hails or if it snows , Keep a - goin ' ! " Tain't no use to sit an ' whine When the fish ain't on your line ; Bait your hook an ' keep a - tryin'— Keep ...
... KEEP A - GOIN ' Frank L. Stanton If you strike a thorn or rose , Keep a - goin ' ! If it hails or if it snows , Keep a - goin ' ! " Tain't no use to sit an ' whine When the fish ain't on your line ; Bait your hook an ' keep a - tryin'— Keep ...
Page 263
... Keep a - goin ' ! When it looks like all is up , Keep a - goin ' ! Drain the sweetness from the cup , Keep a - goin ' ! See the wild birds on the wing , Hear the bells that sweetly ring , When you feel like singin ' , sing— Keep a ...
... Keep a - goin ' ! When it looks like all is up , Keep a - goin ' ! Drain the sweetness from the cup , Keep a - goin ' ! See the wild birds on the wing , Hear the bells that sweetly ring , When you feel like singin ' , sing— Keep a ...
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... keep Back beauty , keep it , beauty , beauty , beauty , . . . from vanishing away ? Ó , is there no frowning of these wrinkles , rankèd wrinkles deep , Dówn ? no waving - off of these most mournful messengers , still mes- sengers , sad ...
... keep Back beauty , keep it , beauty , beauty , beauty , . . . from vanishing away ? Ó , is there no frowning of these wrinkles , rankèd wrinkles deep , Dówn ? no waving - off of these most mournful messengers , still mes- sengers , sad ...
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