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... kind . ยท One might agree with Dr. Johnson's comment on Dyer's effort : " The subject , Sir , cannot be made poetical . " But it may be argued that didactic poetry - to quote a recent view - " is not intrinsically any less poetic because ...
... kind . ยท One might agree with Dr. Johnson's comment on Dyer's effort : " The subject , Sir , cannot be made poetical . " But it may be argued that didactic poetry - to quote a recent view - " is not intrinsically any less poetic because ...
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... kind of metonymy , synecdoche is the use of a part of a thing to stand for the whole of it , or vice - versa . We say , โ He lent a hand , โ and mean that he lent his entire presence . Milton in " Lycidas โ refers to greedy clergymen as ...
... kind of metonymy , synecdoche is the use of a part of a thing to stand for the whole of it , or vice - versa . We say , โ He lent a hand , โ and mean that he lent his entire presence . Milton in " Lycidas โ refers to greedy clergymen as ...
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... kind old nun in a white hood replies ; The children learn to cipher and to sing , To study reading - books and ... kind Had pretty plumage once- enough of that , Better to smile on all that smile , and show There is a comfortable kind of ...
... kind old nun in a white hood replies ; The children learn to cipher and to sing , To study reading - books and ... kind Had pretty plumage once- enough of that , Better to smile on all that smile , and show There is a comfortable kind of ...
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