Preface to PoetryHarcourt, Brace, 1946 - 737 pages |
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... words here on the page ? Or are you think- ing of what the words stand for - what they stood for in Mase- field's experience , what he meant by the words ? Or are you think- ing of what the words do to you - what they mean to you ? I ...
... words here on the page ? Or are you think- ing of what the words stand for - what they stood for in Mase- field's experience , what he meant by the words ? Or are you think- ing of what the words do to you - what they mean to you ? I ...
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... words have absolute meanings . It is only in the technical vocabularies of the exact sciences that certain words , each coined to name one definite thing , are used under the formula : one word = one meaning . And even these words ...
... words have absolute meanings . It is only in the technical vocabularies of the exact sciences that certain words , each coined to name one definite thing , are used under the formula : one word = one meaning . And even these words ...
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... words in a sentence and from ac- centing certain syllables . For we emphasize key words and syllables by uttering them with greater force , with longer time , and with higher pitch than that used for the adjacent unstressed syllables ...
... words in a sentence and from ac- centing certain syllables . For we emphasize key words and syllables by uttering them with greater force , with longer time , and with higher pitch than that used for the adjacent unstressed syllables ...
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