Preface to PoetryHarcourt, Brace, 1946 - 737 pages |
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Page 133
... Wind . Without thought of technical an- alysis , read Shelley's " Ode to the West Wind . " - ( a ) Read it aloud or silently at your pleasure , but read it slowly enough to savor fully the words as they flow by . When you are through ...
... Wind . Without thought of technical an- alysis , read Shelley's " Ode to the West Wind . " - ( a ) Read it aloud or silently at your pleasure , but read it slowly enough to savor fully the words as they flow by . When you are through ...
Page 137
... wind , " which in silent reading are immediately associated or tied- up with the retinal image " West Wind . " But the third sort of imagery suggested in the above paragraph is quite different : the free images of the things for which ...
... wind , " which in silent reading are immediately associated or tied- up with the retinal image " West Wind . " But the third sort of imagery suggested in the above paragraph is quite different : the free images of the things for which ...
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... wind in the chimney , The wind in the chimney , The wind in the chimney , Seemed to say : — " Dream , boy , dream , If you anywise can . To dream is the work Of beast or man . Life is the west - going dream - storm's breath , Life is a ...
... wind in the chimney , The wind in the chimney , The wind in the chimney , Seemed to say : — " Dream , boy , dream , If you anywise can . To dream is the work Of beast or man . Life is the west - going dream - storm's breath , Life is 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