Preface to PoetryHarcourt, Brace, 1946 - 737 pages |
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... sense - making mechanisms ; and our effort to make sense out of the words before us , led to the rejection of the " ancestor " sense and " printer's line " and " alignment " -senses of the word recorded in the dictionaries . But the ...
... sense - making mechanisms ; and our effort to make sense out of the words before us , led to the rejection of the " ancestor " sense and " printer's line " and " alignment " -senses of the word recorded in the dictionaries . But the ...
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... sense of it , but more than that : the full meaning . It would ' be a mistake to assume that seeing the poem on the ... sense ; at another time , thoughts about the meaning will indicate how the word should be pronounced . By and large ...
... sense of it , but more than that : the full meaning . It would ' be a mistake to assume that seeing the poem on the ... sense ; at another time , thoughts about the meaning will indicate how the word should be pronounced . By and large ...
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... sense that are really used with rich ambiguity . Proper nouns — names of mythological , literary , or historical persons or characters , places or events — often carry a surcharge of reference which must be caught in order to get the sense ...
... sense that are really used with rich ambiguity . Proper nouns — names of mythological , literary , or historical persons or characters , places or events — often carry a surcharge of reference which must be caught in order to get the sense ...
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