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... poem employ similar syntactic patterns , when these same patterns recur fre- quently throughout the poem , and when they carry the main theme or meaning , we have a couplet norm for the poem . Such couplet norms vary from poem to poem ...
... poem employ similar syntactic patterns , when these same patterns recur fre- quently throughout the poem , and when they carry the main theme or meaning , we have a couplet norm for the poem . Such couplet norms vary from poem to poem ...
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... poem to poem . This pattern of norm and variation is complex and subtle and does not neatly or simply explain the style of a poem . When more than half of a poem's couplets have similar structures , and when this " couplet majority " ex ...
... poem to poem . This pattern of norm and variation is complex and subtle and does not neatly or simply explain the style of a poem . When more than half of a poem's couplets have similar structures , and when this " couplet majority " ex ...
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... poem's more general but compelling themes is the strength and haunting torment of Eloisa's obsessive memory of a love that usurps her present love of God , and damns her future . The setting of the poem and its atmosphere cooperate in a ...
... poem's more general but compelling themes is the strength and haunting torment of Eloisa's obsessive memory of a love that usurps her present love of God , and damns her future . The setting of the poem and its atmosphere cooperate in a ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Pastorals 1709 | 17 |
An Essay on Criticism 1711 | 45 |
Copyright | |
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