Preface to PoetryHarcourt, Brace, 1946 - 737 pages |
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... sound , especially prominent in the rime - scheme . The recurrences of these consonant sounds are not felt ... sound , announced 118 ANATOMY OF THE POEM - EXPERIENCE.
... sound , especially prominent in the rime - scheme . The recurrences of these consonant sounds are not felt ... sound , announced 118 ANATOMY OF THE POEM - EXPERIENCE.
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... sound pattern of the poem . The more prominent features of the sound pattern - close allitera- tion , for example , certain instances of assonance , and any striking relationship of vowels - these will easily engage the reader's atten ...
... sound pattern of the poem . The more prominent features of the sound pattern - close allitera- tion , for example , certain instances of assonance , and any striking relationship of vowels - these will easily engage the reader's atten ...
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Charles William Cooper, John Holmes. Sometimes there is an obvious relationship between sound and sense . The sound of some words is imitative of the things that they name . This is called onomatopoeia , and examples are not hard to find ...
Charles William Cooper, John Holmes. Sometimes there is an obvious relationship between sound and sense . The sound of some words is imitative of the things that they name . This is called onomatopoeia , and examples are not hard to find ...
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