Preface to PoetryHarcourt, Brace, 1946 - 737 pages |
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... pattern ; the other one is the meaning or sense pattern . How a poem goes , its gait , is its metrical pattern ; what puts you on to this metrical pat- tern , yet keeps the poem from following it exactly , is its sense pat- tern . The ...
... pattern ; the other one is the meaning or sense pattern . How a poem goes , its gait , is its metrical pattern ; what puts you on to this metrical pat- tern , yet keeps the poem from following it exactly , is its sense pat- tern . The ...
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... pattern . 4. THE SORTS OF METRICAL PATTERN It is important , therefore , that the reader discover what the metrical pattern of a poem is , for it is " from " this pattern that the poetic rhythm will deviate in some obvious and in many ...
... pattern . 4. THE SORTS OF METRICAL PATTERN It is important , therefore , that the reader discover what the metrical pattern of a poem is , for it is " from " this pattern that the poetic rhythm will deviate in some obvious and in many ...
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... pattern itself . For instance , in " The Huntsmen ” we expect , after the metrical pattern is established in the first stanza , that the second and fourth lines of the other stanzas will also end upon stressed syllables , will also omit ...
... pattern itself . For instance , in " The Huntsmen ” we expect , after the metrical pattern is established in the first stanza , that the second and fourth lines of the other stanzas will also end upon stressed syllables , will also omit ...
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