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Page viii
... Thomas Estate ) ; copyright 1953 by Dylan Thomas 1957 by New Directions . TOLKIEN , J. R. R. The selection from " The Mewlips " from The Adventures of Tom Bombadil by J. R. R. Tolkien is reprinted by permission of Houghton Mif- flin ...
... Thomas Estate ) ; copyright 1953 by Dylan Thomas 1957 by New Directions . TOLKIEN , J. R. R. The selection from " The Mewlips " from The Adventures of Tom Bombadil by J. R. R. Tolkien is reprinted by permission of Houghton Mif- flin ...
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... Thomas Wyatt with being a careless poet because some of his lines seem faltering and metrically in- consistent . It is uncertain whether the final e's in English spelling were still pronounced in Sir Thomas Wyatt's day , as they were in ...
... Thomas Wyatt with being a careless poet because some of his lines seem faltering and metrically in- consistent . It is uncertain whether the final e's in English spelling were still pronounced in Sir Thomas Wyatt's day , as they were in ...
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... Thomas , And lean your head upon my knee ; Abide and rest a little space , And I will shew you ferlies three . " O see ye not yon narrow road , So thick beset with thorns and briars ? That is the path of righteousness , Though after it ...
... Thomas , And lean your head upon my knee ; Abide and rest a little space , And I will shew you ferlies three . " O see ye not yon narrow road , So thick beset with thorns and briars ? That is the path of righteousness , Though after it ...
Common terms and phrases
A. E. HOUSMAN alliteration aloud attitude ballad beauty bird Blake breath called child connotations dark dead dear death diction doth E. E. Cummings earth Eliot Emily Dickinson English eyes face feel figures of speech flowers GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS green hand hath hear heart heaven Hurroo iambic iambic pentameter J. V. CUNNINGHAM John Johnny kind leaves light live look Lord meaning metaphor meter Milton mind moon mother myth never night o'er paraphrase pattern pleasure poem's poet poet's poetry prose QUESTIONS reader reading reprinted rhythm rime Robert Frost Robert Lowell simile sing sleep song sonnet soul sound speaker stanza star stress suggests sweet syllables symbol T. S. Eliot tell thee theme things Thomas thou thought tone tree verse W. H. Auden WILLIAM WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS wind words Wordsworth Yeats